From reading the first page of the book, I was a little confused at was going on. A character named Winston is introduced in the story. Winston seems to be a lonely depressed character who hates what is happening to London. He suffers daily from a nasty ulcer on his ankle. This ulcer has made him feel sick physically and emotionally. He is depressed in the fact that Big Brother rules London and is told to follow a strict daily routine. Winston vividly describes a dream of his mother and baby sister in a sinking hole that swallows him in water. He starts to recover his feeling that he knows his mother died loving him, and he was to young and selfish to love her back.