This book made me realize how important memories are to a person. Memories explain the present, and they teach many lessons. They can be a source of happiness or resentment, but no matter what they are a story to be viewed whenever triggered. Winston’s flashbacks kept him sane (until the very end of course). He remembered his mother playing a game with him and his brother. Though that memory didn’t explain anything to him, it was still a way for him to escape Big Brother for a moment. The entire novel he chants a song as well. It represents normalcy and the way the world used to be. The flashbacks are the past, what is real, because Big Brother cannot take away the memories.
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement’s,
You owe me three farthings,
Say the bells of St. Martin’s,
When will you pay me?
Say the bells of Old Bailey,
When I grow rich,
Say the bells of Shoreditch
What a clever cat
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