Winston goes to answer the door after leaving he book with the massive words of "down with big brother" in open view. It turns out to be Mrs. Parsons, the wife of a neighbor on the same floor who needs her sink to be repaired. In Airstrip 1, if you can not repair something yourself the government must review the repair and can take up to 2 years before doing anything about it. Mrs. Parsons is married to a man named Tom, who works late. Because of this the Parsons don't have enough time to take their kids out to the "hanging", a monthly event where Eurasian spies would be hanged in public.
Tom was also a government employee that was very stupid and unquestioning. He would always follow the Party no matter what and prided himself on going to the community center every day for 4 years.
The boys then yelled at Winston and called him a traitor and called him Goldstein, the enemy of the party, on his way out. Children were all horrible, they acted as spies and would watch their parents for any signs of rebelling against the government. They were called child-heros for reporting on their parents to the Thought Police.
Winston then thought of a dream he had about O'Brien, where he was certain O'Brien had told Winston, "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness". Although Winston was not sure that O'Brien was a friend or enemy, he knew there was a link of understanding between them.
After this there was a news flash on the tele-screen about the war progress in the Malabar front in South India. This resulted in a reduction of the chocolate ration from 30g to 20g. This disgusted Winston and instead of listening to the National Anthem, Oceania, tis for thee, and went to the window were he could here bombs being dropped on London in the distance.
Winston wrote again in his diary and convinced himself that there is no point to writing the diary or not writing it as he had already committed a Thought-Crime and his existence would soon be destroyed anyways.
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