1984

Book 1 Chapter 2 - Child Spies "With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of orthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it...it was all a sort of glorious game to them...It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children." (page 24)      In this passage, Winston is assisting Mrs. Parsons when her children come out. They begin attacking him by calling him a traitor or saying he was guilty of a thought crime. The children pointed makeshift weapons at Winston and the boy even threw objects wit...