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 Essay Question; what do you think about Chapter 4? I had various thoughts and questions resulting back to chapter four of the story __1984.__ My first thought while reading through the story was that I didn’t know that the department of records had so many jobs. On page 42 in chapter four you can see that there are over twenty different jobs going on in the same hallway. When I first heard about the department of records, my initial thought was that only one person ran it, but boy did I find out different. Secondly, chapter four gave out a lot of information about what the jobs are in the department of records, like rewriting novels, and newspapers, or even vaporizing people from the society and making it seem like they vanished, or never existed. I find it hard to believe that Big Brother is that powerful to vaporize people and confused people’s minds to act like they never existed. Until Chapter four I never thought Big Brother was causing the society any harm. But after reading chapter four, to me it sounds like Big brother is making their people believe that their world is some kind of fantasy. I mean, this world might as well be made up because almost nothing is true. For example Big Brother changes bad articles about them, novels, stories, and even the daily newspaper. The people of this society think that Big Brother is the best government possible, when really all the government is, is a bunch of lies to cover up their mistakes. I think this chapter is mainly about showing us how their society works and how much Big Brother is a part of it. I think chapter four meaning was to show us that Big Brother has too much control in the government and is making these people think that their world is all one big happy family, when really Big Brother is destroying their society. Chapter Four proves that all Big Brother lies to them by changing everything that is bad to the society and creating people who may have never existed or vanishing people and acting like they were never alive. This chapter shows me that Big Brother is not a good government for these people to have, and I only can hope that Wiston will soon realize that and try to stop them even though it’s probably quite impossible.
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 * Quick Reaction **: wow I couldn’t believe what happen in chapter four; it went by so quick because it was such an interesting chapter. Some things that I would just like to say were that I couldn’t believe that big brother would make up people like Comrade Ogilvy. Big brother to me is not helping the society whatsoever. All they are doing is lying and cheating people's lives by filling their heads with false information and basically telling them the way they live right now is the best possible way for them to live.