This story has actually taken an interesting turn. The woman with the dark hair the Winston suspected of being a spy and thought that she had been following him, secretly slipped a note into his hand that read “I love you.” This was a huge shock to Winston, but they managed to actually talk to each other for about 10 seconds deciding on a meeting place in the woods. After they met once, they continued to schedule secret meetings, or to run into each other on a busy street. Always being incredibly careful of where/when they met they became masterminds at evading the party. Julia (the girl) is 26 years old and hate the part and everything about it. Not enough to really do anything except small rebellion though. Winston and Julia eventually rent out a house on the top of an old antique store that intrigues him and they make that their new hiding place. As their relationship progresses, Winston realizes he now has something to live for. This book actually is starting to remind me of fahrenheit 451. There was one passage where Winston mentioned the fact that they burnt all of the old books and only allow people to own regulation safe books and that reminded me of the futuristic book burning society in the book Fahrenheit 451. I think that this book could actually be very realistic. Although now a days it may seem almost impossible to create a society similar to this one - once the initial war and revolution phase was over, a society like that in 1984 would be very easy to upkeep because of the vast monitoring and past altering conditions.
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