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● Part 1: A Garden of Flowers
■ This part is called "A Garden of Flowers" because this is the initial part, the one that
describes and shows how the totalitarian government of Big Brother controls its society.
It's a metaphor because a garden should be nurtured and taken care of, always having
someone watching over to see if the flowers are growing properly. This is the same thing
that the oppressive Big Brother government does, they watch over their people, always
making sure there are no "rotten flowers", that is, anyone that might be a threat to their
government.

○ Chapter 1: Power to the Party
■ This chapter is named "Power to the Party" because of how the Party manipulates the
society in which Winston lives in. The chapter starts with Winston walking home, and as
he walks there are various "Big Brother is Watching You" posters, this already shows the
readers the political environment that is established: an oppressive, controlling and
demanding government. As soon as he starts describing his home, a cheap and disgusting
place that doesn't even have an elevator working and is ironically called Victory Mansion
by the Party, we can see the governmental control present in that society. They place
names such as Victory Mansion and Victory Gin, only so that the people can think that
they are being offered the best. That if someone else was in power, other than Big
Brother, they would be getting much worse. Moreover, this chapter also settles the
importance of Telescreens to the Party, they are placed everywhere around the city and
even inside the citizen's homes. Again, shows how the Party has all the power and
controls all the people through cameras; telescreens.

○ Chapter 2: Sweet Torture
■ This chapter is named "Sweet Torture", it's quite like a pun: instead of sweet tooth, it's
sweet torture. This is because the main event that happens in this chapter is Ms. Parsons's
knocking on Winston's door to get help to fix her sink. When he goes help her, he meets
her children and instead of being little sweet kids playing with toys and asking for candy,
they are wicked kids that were complaining because they weren't allowed to go see the
public hanging. The children in that society are motivated by the government to become
little spies, this way, they can control their parents and even turn them in to the thought
police - by influencing the children while they are still kids, Big Brother manages to
control their citizens even more.

○ Chapter 3: Going Down Memory Lane
■ This chapter is named "Going Down Memory Lane" because the main issue Winston has
in this chapter is an internal conflict when remembering his mother. He has a gapped
memory, he can't really remember much of his childhood. So, he dreams of his mother
and ends up remembering her death which "had been tragic and sorrowful in a way no
longer possible" (pg. 38). He knows that somehow his mother and his sister sacrificed
their lives for loyalty to Winston. However, he knows that he is not able to reciprocate
the feelings because Winston, now, is surrounded by a society that cherishes "fear, hatred
and pain, but no dignity of emotion, or deep and complex sorrows" (pg. 38). Winston
knows that his mother died loving him, but it's no longer possible for him to take notice
of his mother's sacrifice because of the society he lives in and the Party's ideals.