Quotes From 'Brotherhood By Tim O' Brien

One piece of evidence of this is in the book On The Run by Gordon Korman is on page 28-29 when Aiden Falconer said “ Didn’t you learn anything growing up in a house with to criminologist.” This quote is showing What would you do with your family, because it shows that Aidan cares about his sister and wants her to do good. Another quote from the book On The Run by Gordon Korman is on page 106 when he said “Just walk right in like you know where you're going.” This quote shows that Aiden Falconer would do anything to keep his family safe, even being killed if that meant his sister wasn't, the shows a lot of courage.

There is a problem with Winston’s frame of mind in the eyes of the Party, and Julia who is Winston’s girlfriend turns him into the Thought Police. A man named O’Brien who works with Winston is secretly the leader of the Thought Police. Winston is tortured and beaten, but not killed, the Party wants him to change and conform to their policies. “When you finally surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul,” (255). The Party tortures and tortures until you admit defeat and the Party has won again. O’Brien explains that everything about Goldstein and the Brotherhood was made by the Party to strike fear into the people to make

Believing that O’Brien is a member of the Brotherhood and he too is opposed to the Party, Julia and Winston pay him a visit at his apartment. O’Brien tells the two that they must be willing to lose their own lives in order to take down Big Brother; however, when he asks if they would be willing to betray one another, they refuse. Winston’s hatred for Big Brother has accumulated so much that he is now willing to die solely for the sake of taking down the Party. At the start of the novel, Winston could not stand the thought of his own death. The thought haunted him, and he was not prepared for that to happen. As the story progresses and Winston is being oppressed in more and more ways, he despises the Party more than ever, and eventually is

O’Brien’s relationship with Winston provides him a much-needed justification for his thoughts, and even after revealing himself to be a thought police, the respect from Winston is unwavered. From the first chapters of the novel, it is clear that Winston desires O’Briens justification. When Winston and O’Brien meet eyes for the first time, Winston says that he “ was thinking the same thing as himself. An unmistakable message had passed. “. Even though brief, the eye contact with O'Brien right after experiencing the 2-minute hate speaks more than

This friendless situation makes Winston and Julia desperate for allies, also explaining why they are so eager to trust O’Brien and Mr. Charrington at first, both of which turning out to be more dangerous than the people they work with in the Ministry of Truth. This betrayal reinforces the fact that no one can be trusted, that they have no allies, and that they are alone against an army of double thinkers.

“When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed”(Rand). This was stated by Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand; the extract relates to the novel William Golding wrote called Lord of the Flies. Golding wrote about a group of schoolboys trapped on an island from a plane crash. The boys had to figure out how to survive without grownups. Trying to survive was difficult because they had to have common sense and order. They lose those traits throughout the book which resulted in selfishness and corrupt behaviors.

Invisible man by Ralph Ellison is told in the first person by an unnamed African American man who considers himself invisible to society. The comic book is a representation of the Invisible man’s life. The certain event in the comic is when the protagonist gets injured at his work and is taken to the factory’s hospital. Three strange white doctors attempt to help the protagonist, but turn out to be lunatics and proceed to experiment on him. The doctors put the protagonist through electroshock therapy to the point where he is no longer afraid of Dr. Bledsoe, who is the president of the protagonist’s college that he attends. This whole event occurs because the protagonist is black and the doctors would not condone doing experiments on their own kind, white people.

Lastly, when O’Brien came in contact with Winston, he asked about Big Brother and asked to join their party. “We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some/ kind of secret organization working against the Party, and/ that you are involved in it. We want to join it and work for/ it. “(177) In this quotation, Winston clearly exposes the fact that he is against Big Brother and he wants to join O’Brien’s group, and that he doesn’t care about the fact that O’Brien may be just pretending to be an ally, or the fact that even thinking of going against Big Brother can kill him. This clearly shows how brave Winston is compared to all the other people in Oceania who have yet to dare such a thing.

Winston was right O'brian was a man leading the revolution so him and julia decided to follow there steps to become involved with the revolution. They meet up at his apartment to discuss ways to take down the government and winston felt amazed and satisfied that someone is finally taking charge. So o'brien talks to winston and gives him a book to read that belong to the brotherhood. So winston picks it up and starts reading it to julia. And suddenly soldiers barged in to seize them both it turns out it was a set up the whole

“I looked at the round face in the Polaroid again, the way the sum fell on it. My brother’s face, Hassan had loved me once, loved me in a way that no one ever had or ever would again. He was gone now, but a little part of him lived on. It was in Kabul. Waiting” (Hosseini 239).

Throughout the novel we get this situation that O'brien’ is completely trusted by Winston, and that they have a strong relationship with one another but we quickly see that O'Brien’ betrays Winston. Everything that has been told to the people that it is truth is actually a lie and everyone in the entire world is being betrayed in one giant scheme. Another example of betrayal is when Julia decides to have sex with

many unnecessary risks such as trusting O'Brien, renting the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop and

Continuing on, there is a party member by the name of O’Brien who interests Winston, because he thinks that O’Brien is in a group named, “The Brotherhood,” which is an organization that secretly opposes the ruling party. Eventually, O’Brien talks to Winston gives him a book which was written by Emmanuel Goldstein; a former top member of the party and the man who started The Brotherhood. In the book, they are supposedly supposed to learn the how and why of the revolution. O’Brien then tells Winston that he is,

He first sees an inner party member, O'Brien, who he believes is in the brotherhood to take down big brother- the party’s leader. Marcus also meets a girl who is not exactly what he thinks, but soon starts to find out that she wants something more than just an ally. She sends Winston a note saying “I love you.” and they soon begin a forbidden affair, always on the lookout for the higher party spying on them. As their affair begins to flourish, Winston's hatred for the party grows more and he feels it is time to overthrow the party. He counts on the help of his brotherhood and friends, but he may have made one big mistake that can cost him everything.

     Tired of feeling the way he is, with the monotonous struggle of everyday life Winston decides to oppose the party in more real ways; and begins to deviate from certain set behaviors to free himself from this bondage of the party. “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone-to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone”(25-26). He has realized what the government does to people; how everyone is made to be the same, where no one is allowed to think on their own. The party is omnipotent in all affairs and he will not go along with it anymore. Winston has made up his mind; he is going to do everything he can to bring down the party. He and Julia go to O’Brien’s apartment one afternoon, and Winston’s true hatred is revealed. “We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party,