Part 1: Chapter 2

1. Mrs. Parsons seems to live a dreary, fearful life. She isn't abnormal, but her children pose the constant threat of reporting her to the Thought Police. Her husband is even into the Party's ways of being, so she is constantly in fear. 2. Her children are being trained as spies, and when Winston enters their home, they act aggressively towards him, and pretend he is a bad guy. Mrs. Parsons is nervous because many children in 1984 turned their parents in, and it was encouraged in their education to do so, if their parents were against the Party. 3. A child hero is a child who turns their parents in, or reports someone else. They are congratulated for this. 4. When Winston says this, it is about someone who has leaked some sort of clue to the Party that they are not quite happy with them, and Winston is referring to the fact that they will be vaporized. The Party tends to vaporize anyone who seems even slightly unhappy with or against the Party's wishes. To vaporize is not only just to kill them, but completely erase them from the past. It is to make it so that they never existed. The Party can make up many reasons for vaporizing people, so the person Winston referred to could really be vaporize for any reason. 5. O'Brien is a man that works with Winston, and Winston has exchanged glances with him and believes that they are on the same page in their belief that the Party is wrong to do what they are doing. He feels strongly that O'Brien is an ally, and someone he could possibly trust. 6. 'Winston raised his hands above his head, but with an uneasy feeling, so vicious was the boy's demeanor, that it was not altogether a game,' and 'It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters,” are both interesting to me because it pints out that even though these are children, the are impressionable and a big threat to anyone. 7. This movement is similar to the Youth League, because they both consisted of children being made to believe the governments virtues, and they were more focused on fighting for their cause than anything else. These children would turn in family if they had to, and reported anyone who was against their leaders beliefs. 8. The White Rose was a group of university students and professor that were against the Nazis. They felt that the way they treated Jews was unethical and disgusting, and spread word of their thoughts by graffiti and leaflets. They wanted to bring awareness to how cruel the people truly were for supporting and joining the Nazis.