Jordan Borges’s Reviews > 1984 > Status Update

Winston is taking his lunch interval and chooses to write in his diary, a letter to himself or someone in the future. He explains by simply thinking these things, let alone write them down sentences him to death-Thought Crime is what it’s called.

Winston Smith, who works in the records department of the Ministry of Truth, writes in is diary knowing that this very thing, the human operation to think and express, is death.