Karina Casillas Quiz

The excerpt I have chosen from 1984, explains to the reader about Winston's first reaction to the note given by the dark-haired girl. "For several seconds he was too stunned even to throw the incriminating thing into the memory hole. When he did so, although he knew the danger of showing too much interest, he could not resist reading it once again, just to make sure that the words were really there." (Orwell, 90)This quotation from the book proves his confusion to the given note. For example, the narrator tells us how Winston could not resist to his interest, so he had to read it a second time to confirm what he had just read. Winston knows that this is a quite incriminating action from her part and him as well for reading it, so as a result he becomes paranoid about being caught. Winston manages to bear with the matter being, that it has only become a physical problem, which was to arrange a meeting with her. How he tries to play off the situation is pretty smart of him. He thought of every possible way to meet and he came to the conclusion that the only place was in the canteen away from telescreens. Throughout this chapter he is described to be wise on how he will take care of the situation yet paranoid at the fact that what he is doing is risky and incriminating.