The year is, supposedly, 1984, the author, George Orwell. The journey of this novel is quite a long and complex one, but the start is where we see the most interesting aspects of Winston’s adventure within himself. First we see Winston in his normal everyday life: working at the Ministry of Truth “fixing false documents”, going home, observing the people he sees, but we also see that he is different than the others. Winston has slight thoughts of rebellion and hatred towards Big Brother, but also loves him at the same time. This is called doublethink in Newspeak, the revised language of Oceania. “He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” (Orwell, 83). Here we see Winston questioning his belief in the Party, and if he is in fact, a lunatic, or if he is just different, and a minority, instead of a problem. Winston’s job at The Ministry of Truth is to fix documents that are “false”, usually things said by the Party that were proven to be wrong. By doing this the illusion is shown that the Party is always right. This is very similar to today, in the fact that the media and public information can be severely incorrect or edited by governments or other controlling people. We watch the news, and we are fed what is approved, not usually the whole story, which is exactly what happens in 1984.