1984 Reflection Every sophomore in Honors English Language Arts looks towards what’s known as the “1984 game” with dread, and I found that this dread was warranted. After our first day following the rules of the game, or at the very least trying to, I was exhausted. I found that the prospect of not being able to talk to anyone not in Mrs. Wurtz’s english class was horrible, and not responding to anyone who spoke to you made you feel awful. Not only did I have to follow the rules, but I had to hide the fact that I was a part of the Thought Police from everyone. Over the course of the week, I figured out classes that had no one in Wurtz that I could didn’t have to follow the rules in, and made deals in the classes I did have people in. Though by the end of the week I found myself more comfortable in the rules, when I had to follow them, I still found it hard being enable to talk to …show more content…
As a Thought Police I often found myself making concessions for people, only turning a couple people per day, or making deals with other people. This opposes Winston’s reality quite drastically, because Winston was constantly under surveillance for even thinking about doing something that opposed the Party, through people and telescreens mostly, and in ours people often got away with breaking rules. The rule broken the most, and reported the least, was likely that you were not supposed to speak, or even gesture, negatively about Big Brother. This contrasted with Winston’s life as well, because negativity towards Ingsoc, Big Brother, or the Party was punished severely in his life. The final major contrast I saw between Winston’s life, and our game, was the punishments. Breaking a rule in Winston’s life brought about months of agony, starvation, and isolation, while to deter us from breaking a rule in our game we had only the threat of writing an extra paragraph to stop