1984 Ch. 1,2 Mood Paragraph

In your previous assignment, you identified several elements introduced in the first two chapters that help establish the mood of 1984.

NOW, you are going to use those observations and synthesize a paragraph that makes a general characterization about the mood of the story and supports it with evidence and analysis.

*When synthesizing, you take the individual elements you have discussed and make them work together to coherently support a single perspective.

Your prompt: How does Orwell establish the emotional setting of his fictional society in the first two chapters of 1984?

TS: HOW does the author do it? Use this single sentence to make a claim about the author’s craft. Does he use word choice? Imagery? Characterization? New concepts? More than one of these? You don’t need to identify or describe the tone at this point -- do that in the body and at the conclusion of your paragraph.

Evidence 1 These are the

Analysis   1 sentences that

Evidence  2 you completed on

Analysis   2 Thursday and Friday.

Evidence  3 Make sure to include

Analysis   3 transition words and phrases.

CS: Provide a single conclusion sentence about the mood established in the book.

*What feelings are the result of this authoritarian dystopia?

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*What does this show about human nature or government power?

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*How does this establish conflicts, characterization, or foreshadowing for the rest of the novel?

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*How is this relevant to society in real life? You could refer to your human rights project

Don’t try to answer them all -- this is a single concluding sentence.