What is your breaking point? (1984)

         There are those times at which something or someone gives way under strain and those moments of crisis in a situation. These are known as breaking points. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell Winston, the main character sees who he has become. After being tortured in the ministry of love; the reflection of a skinny like, starving, ugly looking man in the mirror in which he looks in makes him realize what he was slowly becoming. The tone of the novel during this part is serious and I found it to also be curious and gloomy or sad. One may find it to be curious because if anyone is anything like me they were thinking how and why did he let himself go. Also gloomy or sad because Smith was not the same person anymore, physically, he looked thinner, old, and gray.

            My breaking point is when I have nothing left to fall back on, when there is literally nothing left I can do. I like to be a positive person or at least I try to be a positive person. All this stay positive stuff usually works out for me, until of course my breaking point comes along. What causes my breaking point you might ask, honestly my breaking point is caused when I stop being positive and start thinking no one cares. My breaking point leaves me in a stressful situation in which I start to think I’m not good enough and worthless. This now I see as silly but when my breaking point comes there is nothing I can do.

            Being in a stressful situation can be well, stressful. I can’t actually feel how Winston is really feeling at this moment, in his breaking point, but I myself have a breaking point and know how it feels to be stressed physically and mentally. Sometimes you have to be strong and go through obstacles. A breaking point is just another obstacle in life you have to overcome.