Tuesday, March 4, 2008

1.4

Read 1.4 and answer the following questions:

1) The ministry of truth doesn't "alter" old news. The official phrase they use for what they do to news is:

2) How many people that Winston had known at one time or other, not counting his parents, had been "vaporized?"

3) What did it mean to be an "unperson?"

4) How did Winston know Comrade Ogilvy?

11 comments:

Asarp14 said...

1. The official phrase they use for what they do to news is "Categorical Pledge"
2. Winston had known perhaps thirty people who have been vaporized, not counting his parents.
3. To be an "unperson" to not exist.When people were arrested, sometimes they were released and allowed to remain at liberty for about two years before excution.
4.Winston knows Comrade Ogilvy in his imagination. He created him as a role model for the people because he had to completely change a story which was previously written.

NATii ^_^ said...

1.they rectify the old news.
2.30 people.
3.to not exist.
4.he made him up for Big Brother

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Sweets said...

1. The official phrase they use for what they do is rectify.
2.30
3. To be an unperson meant never exist or never have existed.
3.Comrade Ogilvy was someone made. He claims that she died at war. But he later states that it was true that there was no such person, but a a brief description and some pictures would make him real.

azito23 said...

1)The official phrase they use is rectify.
2)30 people
3)TO BE AN UNPERSON MEANS TO NOT EXIST.
4)he made him up for a speech of big brother.

skittlez said...

1. to rectify
2. 30 people
3. it means not to exist
4. winston created this unperson for his speech

kiki_the_guitar_hero said...

1. The word that they used was to retify meaniny the cleared all records.
2. Winston knew about 30 people that had been van ished not including his parents.
3. The word "unperson" means not to exist. This also counts for people that were vaporizated or b ut into prison.
4. Comrade Ogilvy was a made up person. He had recently died in a herioc death at battle. Winston knew him because the gonvernment used him as a hero figure for the people.

Anonymous said...

>1 The official phrases they used for what they do the the news is to rectify the old news.

>2 They are over 30 people that is vaporized that Winston met.

>3 Based on the reading an unperson is when someone is not exist.

>4 Winston knows comrade because he think he is a person that is created by big brothers.

The Pineapple said...

1. To rectify
2. He knew 30 other people.
3. To be an unperson was to have been vaporize.
4. He made him up as he rectified the news article about Big Brother.

161cam said...

1) rectify
2) about 30 peolpe
3) when you dont exist
4) a speech to big brother

Anonymous said...

1) The ministrie of truth rectifies the news because they are correcting news that has become "wrong".
2)Winston knew about thirty people who had been vaporized not includeing his parents.
3)An "Un-Person" was someone who did not exist and could not be proven existed. But winston thought some of those had existed.
4)Winston knew comrade O, because the party had created him to seem as the ideal citizen, but winston knew he was just made to make it seem like pleaseing the party was the only thing that mattered.