Part 1

Chapter 1 Winston Smith – small, frail, 39 home for lunch "INGSOC" (the merging of the words "English" and "Socialism") is another poster seen ubiquitously. Telescreens are everywhere, both work as a way to spy and promote propaganda. Oceania is the name of his country Winston is employed as an editor (read: creator of propagandistic lies) in the Records Department at the Ministry of Truth the Ministry of Truth, which deals with historical records; the Ministry of Peace, which wages war; the Ministry of Love, which is basically the White House; and the Ministry of Plenty, which plans economic shortages.

The three slogans of the Party grace the façade of these buildings: War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; and Ignorance is Strength. Winston starts writing in his diary – this is punishable by death or 25 years in a work camp He is thinking about his hatred/sexual desire for the “dark-haired girl” and his interest in O’Brien. The Party’s chief enemy is Emmanuel Goldstein, whose "lean, Jewish face" He knew he would be punished even before he wrote “Down with Big Brother,” he committed a thought crime

Chapter 2 Winston believes that the party survives by empowering stupid people (i.e. Parsons). You can only love the party, no love among families, lovers, etc. Children are trained to report. The Party owns everything. He is writing in the journal in hopes that the future would be brighter. He realizes he is being bad and he hides his journal and returns to work.

Chapter 3 Winston dreams – mother disappeared when he was ten, the brown haired girl, and Shakespeare. Telescreen wakes him up at 7:30, orders him to do exercises He thinks about the past and it makes him question the Party. Hconcludes that he had never heard the word "Ingsoc" before Therefore, the Party could not have been omnipresent back then as it claims.

Chapter 4 Every piece of paper is thrown into “memory holes” where every paper is to be thrown out. He alters print sources to ensure that they are in agreement with the Party’s version of past and present events. This includes tracking down and forever erasing references to certain persons from historical documents once the Party has "vaporized" such persons. He also makes up events.

Chapter 5 Winston has lunch with Syme, very intelligent co- worker. Winston believes he will be vaporized one day. Syme is revising the 11 th edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. Eventually no one will have the words to create a rebellion. The brunette looks at him and Winston gets nervous that maybe she is a member of the Thought Police.

Chapter 6 Winston writes in his diary about sex. He was married to a lady named Katharine for 15 months, she has been missing for ten years. She is a brainwashed Party follower – she looked at sex as a duty for the party, making future comrades. Winston’s desire is a Thought Crime, but he just wants to be with someone.

Chapter 7 Winston believes that the Proles, 85% of the citizens of Oceania, are the people who could overthrow the Party. The Proles are ignored by the Party, because they are so unintelligent. When the past is erased, and the erasure is forgotten, the lie becomes truth. Winston remembers holding physical evidence of people’s existence, but then he destroyed it. Winston wonders whether the mind itself is controllable. He refuses to believe that it is, though, and realizes that the physical world exists so long as there is a mind to perceive it, he writes freedom is the freedom to think. He plans on giving his diary to O’Brien.

Chapter 8 Winston is strolling the prole neighborhood and stops in a pub, tries to talk to an old man. Mr. Charrington, a 63-year-old widower who had owned the shop for about 30 years (where he bought his diary) Winston purchases a glass paperweight containing pink coral. Winston wants to rent a room, a print of St. Clement’s Church hanging where a telescreen ought to be, so he feels it is safe and private. He sees the brunette, and becomes paranoid that she was indeed spying on him. He goes home and tries to write in his diary, but can’t write anything other than the party slogans.