Chapters 7-10 (Second Book)

"When his father disappears, his mother did not show any surprise or any violent grief, but a sudden change came over her. she seemed to have become completely spiritless. It was evident even to Winston that she was waiting for something that she knew must happen. She did everything that was needed--cooked, washed, mended, made the bed, swept the floor, dusted the mantelpiece-- always very slowly with a curious lack of superfluous motion, like an artist's lay-figure moving of its own accord, Her large Shapely body seemed to relapse naturally into stillness. For hours at a time she would sit almost immobile on the bed, nursing his young sister, a tiny, ailing, very silent child of two or three, with a face made simian by thinness."

Winston's mother is a strong independent women that gave her children everything. She gave them care and love when their father left them. Even though she seemed sad that he left she would never show her kids. She wants them to know that she was okay and strong and that they would be alright together. She did everything around the house. As all children in Oceana Winston was stubborn as a child he wanted more than what his mother gave him, and she worked very hard for it. Just like today mothers work very hard for their kids and show them all the love in the world, yet when we are children we do not know from right to wrong. We want everything, that's why it is our parents responsibility to teach us about greed, selfishness, and ignorance. Then when we grow up we start to use what we learned and we put it to the world.