Question 6: 1984

* are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? or disturbing? or memorable?

I found many settings in this novel to be memorable. In particular I found the scene in which the refugee woman shields her child from being hit by the bullets to be very memorable. This was a helpless effort by the woman but she still held her son to her chest as if that would help save her son from being showered with bullets, along with herself. Pg 11: " There was a middleaged woman who might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy screaming with fright ad hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms around him comforting him although she was blue with fright herself. All the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him."

Throughout this scene the whole audience is laughing and enjoying this brutal massacre. I found this to be very disturbing. How could people actually find it funny to see other people being killed and murdered in grotesque ways?? How long did this process take to change people's minds so they found tragically heartbreaking events funny? These were some questions I asked myself when reading this passage. I did not understand at all how a human of any kind could find something like this humourous. Today there are some people who are mentally sick and just completely weird who might find this kind of thing funny, unfortunately. But in this scene EVERYONE is laughing and enjoying this murder. Therefore, this is why I found this scene to be memorable and very disturbing.