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1984 | Part 1, Chapters 4 and 5 Summary and Analysis

New Characters
Tillotson: employee in the Records Department

Syme: Winston’s friend, expert in Newspeak

Tom Parsons: Winston’s neighbor and coworker, loyal to the Party

Summary
Winston’s job at the Ministry of Truth is to alter or “rectify” records to create documentary evidence supporting the Party. As soon as he finishes with the day’s assignment, he drops the instructions into the memory hole, where he assumes they are destroyed along with the papers containing the original information.

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