Part 2: Chapter 3

1) Julia and Winston have very little time to meet. What keeps Julia so busy and why does she do it?

Julia keeps busy by doing volunteer work for the Junior Anti-Sex League so that it gives her the appearance of being a perfect citizen, so that she is less suspected to do anything bad.

2) Choose 5 powerful descriptive adjectives (use a thesaurus) that describe Julia. Provide evidence to support your choice and a page # for each choice. Please submit using the following format:

Adjective Page# Evidence

Positive pg.142 “Don’t you enjoy being alive? Don’t you like feeling: This is me, this is real, and I’m alive!”
 
Rooted pg. 133 “She is alert and businesslike, she told Winston details of the journey to home.”
 
Daring pg. 134 “She kissed Winston almost violently and right after disappeared.”
 
Ininterested pg. 138 “She made no general criticism of things what she is not interested in.”
 
Straightforward pg.136 “Always in the stink of women, How I hate women! She always says parenthetically.”

3) Describe Pornosec? 

Pornsec is the sub-section in the Fiction Department that makes pornography for the proles.

 4) When did Julia have her first love affair?

Julia had her first love affair at sixteen years old.

5) What does Julia think of the Brotherhood?

Julia was born after the time they were around, so she doesn't believe they exist.

6) What is ‘goodthinkful”?

To be 'goodthinkful' is to be orthdox, not able to think a bad thought.

7) What does Julia mean when she says “All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour.” (p.139)

Julia thinks this because when one has intercourse it is using up energy, and afterwards very lazy and relaxed. The Party is making it's people use up their energy on marching and cheering for them, rather than enjoyable things, like sex or any other physical activity.

8) Choose one or two lines that attracted your attention. Discuss why.

"Oh, rubbish! Which would you sooner sleep with, me or
a skeleton? Don’t you enjoy being alive?" I like this line because it shows off Julia's spunk and attitude towards life that is quite different from Winston's, even though they both hate the Party.

"The family had
become in effect an extension of the Thought Police," was so interesting to read, because it was so eery, and makes the reader understand the paranoia that families with children in 1984 had to live with everyday.