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  1. Analysis. Carelessly leaving the diary open on the table, Winston opens the door. It is a neighbor, Mrs. Parsons, who wants Winston to help unblock her sink. While Winston is fixing the sink the Parsons children appear, wearing the uniform of the Spies, a youth organization that encourages children to spy on their parents and report behavior ...

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  2. Mr. Popper's Penguins. Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1938. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.

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    Winston opens the door fearfully, assuming that the Thought Police have arrived to arrest him for writing in the diary. However, it is only Mrs. Parsons, a neighbor in his apartment building, needing help with the plumbing while her husband is away. In Mrs. Parsons’s apartment, Winston is tormented by the fervent Parsons children, who, being Junior...

    Winston dreams of being with his mother on a sinking ship. He feels strangely responsible for his mother’s disappearance in a political purge almost twenty years ago. He then dreams of a place called The Golden Country, where the dark-haired girl takes off her clothes and runs toward him in an act of freedom that annihilates the whole Party. He wak...

    Winston’s fatalism is a central component of his character. He has been fearing the power of the Party for decades, and the guilt he feels after having committed a crime against the Party overwhelms him, rendering him absolutely certain that he will be caught and punished. Winston only occasionally allows himself to feel any hope for the future. Hi...

  4. The Mr. Popper’s Penguins Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.

  5. Mr. Popper "Penguins are intelligent. They crowd to the edge of an ice bank to catch shrimp. They push one penguin in to see if he gets eaten up by a sea leopard. If he doesn't, they all jump in." Mrs. Popper "Dear me! They sound like heathen birds." Mr. Popper "It's an odd thing, all the polar bears live at the North Pole and

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  6. Richard Atwater, Florence Atwater. Mr. Popper's Penguins. Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1938. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.

  7. Chapter 2:Mr. Popper's Penguins Plot Summary. "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Richard Atwater is a heartwarming and hilarious tale that follows the life of Mr. Popper, a simple house painter living in the town of Stillwater. The story begins with Mr. Popper's fascination for all things Arctic.

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