Winston has been captured by the thought police after a raid on the antique shop led by Mr. Charrington. Winston does not know what happens next, but he wakes up a white, empty cell. The lights are always on - this is the place where there is no darkness.
Winston was originally in a holding cell there he met many prisoners before heading to his own. The ministry of love handles numerous petty criminals such as drug dealers and prostitutes. In the holding cell, Winston meets an obese prole woman whose name is also Smith, she is also intoxicated and vomits inside the holding cell. He meets a poet named Ampleforth, whose crime was leaving the word "god" inside a poem he was told the rewrite to meet party standards. He is then taken to a cell called "room 101", he tried anything to escape, asking for any other form of torture except 101 but the guards take him away regardless. There was Winston's neighbor, the Parsons who accidentally said "Down with Big Brother" in his sleep; one of his children heard him and they reported him to the Thought Police. Parson says he his actually proud for raising his children correctly. Then there was man who was dying of starvation, he had so little food that his skull could easily be seen from his face, his eyes appeared to be popping out. One of the other prisoners tried giving the starving man a piece of bread but the guards came in and punched the man hard enough in the mouth to send him flying across the cell.
Winston believes that the Brotherhood will send him a razor blade so he may commit suicide until O'Brien walks in. Winston thinks that O'Brien was captured but instead O'Brien was actually an operative of the Ministry of Love, who had been setting Winston up from the start. Winston asks himself if he can endure torture for Julia, his elbow is then smashed by a guard. He looses all thought and wishes the pain would stop and would try to prevent it by any means possible.
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