1984

1984 On a day in April in 1984, a man named Winston Smith comes home, to his apartment in a nearly condemed building. He is thirty-nine years old, it is painful for him to get up the stairs because he has a varicose ulcer above his right ankle. The elevator in his building is always out of service. As he climbs the staircase, he sees on each flight, a poster depicting an enormous face, below are the words “big brother is watchhing you.”. Winston is a low-level official in the Party. Winston is a member of the higher class, but his life is still under the conrol of the party. In his apartment there is telescreen, it displays random information that the party decides to give the public. Winston keeps his back to the screen, so as not to be seen, for they could be watching him at any moment, or maybe not. From a hidden drawer, winston pulls out a small diary. He found the diary in a store in the prole's district. Winston begins to write in his diary. He writes down about the films he watched the night before. He looks down and realizes that he has written 1984, winston, o’brien, julia, about, tells, party, room, girl, telescreen, torture, sees, one, diary, book, big, records, place, old, love, cannot, brother, reads, partys, out, memory, man, make, knows, history, himself, brotherhood, begins, before, asks, winston, winston’s