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book 3 Chapters 1-3;

(Chapter 1 pg. 300) "He thought: 'If I could save Julia by doubling my own pain, would I do it? Yes, I would.' But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it. He did not feel it. In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain. Besides, was it possible, when you were actually suffering it, to wish for any reason that your own pain should increase? But that question was not answerable yet.

This quote shows how much Winston cares about Julia. He is so caught up in Julia and the affection that he gets from her that he would harm himself. It seems that he would risk his own life for Julia. I think that Winston not having anyone that he cares about as much as he does for Julia right now makes him feel that he has to give up everything for her. I do not think that should be true. In a relationship you shouldn't feel that you have to give your partner everything if you haven't even been together for a very long time. Something else that stood out to me was that the place that he was in. He mentions that he could not feel anything. I think that that shows how similar our jails are to the Party's. The Party's jails are meant to force you to be in pain and the jails in the United States try to make you think about why you are there. The Party also makes its prisoners think about how much more pain they are going to have. I think Winston's question at the end is very important. I think that it is possible to wish you had more pain when you are suffering if the suffering is worse than death. People might rather choose death if they are being harmed too much. All of this makes me wonder if Winston is scared and regrets his decision. It does not seem like he regrets his decision right now, but he could later because the pain could get worse. I know that I would be scared if I was in Winston's position right now.


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