Chapters 3-5

How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
They meet in the woods, in crowded streets, the church, talking under their breath in the market.
What is Julia’s job?
She works in the fiction department of novel writing machines
What is her background?
She's 26 and lives in a Hostel with 30 other girls. She doesn't remember much of things before the 60's. The only person she remembers even knowing is her grandfather who disappeared when she was 8(vaporised). She was the Captain of the hockey team, won gymnastics two years running. She was also a troop leader of the spies and branch secretary in the youth league before joining the junior anti-sex league.
What is her attitude toward the Party?
She hates them. She believes they are dirty swine who are opposed to the very things they do everyday.
Describe the quote “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness”. What does Winston think about Julia?
Winston likes Julia but to her it is mostly just sex. Which is probably because Winston is old enough to know what it is like to have relationship and what it means.
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?
Because they are both uncontrollable instincts. It creates emotions between people and the party doesn't want people to feel emotions which could potentially rise against them. The party doesn't want people to create bonds. It wants more of the just individual population.
How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
He likes her because he thinks she is beautiful and he thinks that what she is doing is beautiful. Even though Julia hates her and says that she is monstrous. Winston thinks her singing is a symbol of rebellion which is why he likes her all the more.
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
Scent, taste, touch, sight and hearing. All five of the senses are mentioned in the story probably to show how they don't get to truly experience these often and for their lifestyle even the simplest of things can spark a whole new meaning and experience.
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston hates the rats, absolutely terrified which is probably from a past memory in his childhood. Julia on the other hand isn't really effected by them. She just throws her shoe to make it goes away and she says she can get rid of them for him the next time they come over there.
Winston is interested in the church bells that once played in the city even though he is not religious. What do church bells mean to him?
They mean something to him because it reminds him of the time before big brother. Before the revolution.
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what?
The paperweight was the room they were in and the coral was Julia's & Winston's life, fixed in eternity at the heart of the crystal inside it.
Who has vanished? How does Winston confirm this?
Syme has vanished. Winston checks the Chess Committee which he was a part of and he now is no longer on the board. Winston now knows he was too smart and was taken by the thought police. Probably to be vaporised.
Describe the preparations for Hate Week. In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
They decorate everything with banners and pretty posters. They pass out fliers, have meetings and presentations. Which the inner party all works overtime in order to prepare for everything.
Julia and Winston have some differences. Explain them.
She is a women and he is a man? There is somewhere near a 15 year age difference between the two of them.