The book my group decided to read is 1984 by George Orwell. I looked up the number of chapters in the book to determine how to divide the story I talked about in these summary entries and found that the book was originally divided into 3 and that my copy had the parts labeled. For this reason I decided to make 3 summaries, one for each part. The story begins in dystopian London, which is now part of a province known as Airstrip 1, which is itself part of a country called Oceania. In the early chapters, we are introduced to a man named Winston Smith, who is a low-ranking member of the Party, a group that rules Oceania with totalitarian force. Although Winston is a member of the Party, his low and insignificant position within it means that he too is subject to the Party's strict rules. The Party uses psychological as well as physical control to brainwash the citizens of Oceania into strict obedience. the Party. Winston works in one of the government departments known as the Ministry of Truth and his job is to basically rewrite history to fit the party's ideals. If anyone the Party "disappears" is found in any form of newspaper, magazine, book, etc., Winston and others in the same position should ensure that any form of media referring to them is altered so that they can never exist and that the original media has been destroyed so as to leave no traces behind. This method is also used by the Party to alter history. In this way the party is able to make it appear that before coming to power after an event known as the Revolution, life was horrible and not worth living. They manage to make this way... the medium of paper... the idea of ​​the book within the book that Orwell did with Goldstein's manifesto. I'll be completely honest, it took me about 3 readings to understand the whole thing because the language and topics it talks about are pretty dry and dense. That's not to say I didn't find it interesting, because I did. I'm happy that at least a little part of the story behind the nations in 1984 and the war they are involved in is explained, especially the economics and control-based reasoning behind it. I was completely shocked by Mr Charrington's revelation that he is a member of the Thought Police, I had absolutely no suspicion that he was involved with them in the slightest. Since Charrington turned out to be hostile, my suspicions about O'Brien remain valid, regardless of whether or not he told Winston and Julia that he was a member of the Brotherhood..