Chapter Two

In the beginning of chapter two, Winston fears that the Thought Police were at the door since he wrote the phrase "Down With Big Brother". He was relieved to see that it was only his neighbor, Mrs. Parsons. He goes over to help with the sink plumbing but becomes fearful again when her kids, who happened to be Junior Spies, accused him of thought crime. Back in his apartment, Winston writes in his diary that thought crime made him a dead man and then he hid the book.

Now, since the setting of the book is one in which anything you say or do could be monitored, I didn't think that it was such a good idea for Winston to be writing that, especially where it could be found. I say this because he could have been seen writing that down and sooner or later, someone could show up to take him away. It was a wrong decision for him due to the fact that he is going to live in fear of someone knowing that he did that which isn't a healthy way for him to live.