“He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk shop in a slummy quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.” (6)
Winston uses the journal that he is drawn to as a way of expressing his thoughts, ideas, and feelings. It is what first makes Winston start committing thoughtcrimes, or thinking against the Party. Journals symbolize the transfer of thoughts from one entity to another, which in the society that Winston lives in is considered a crime. Orwell uses Winston’s writing in the journal to show how Winston rebels against the society in which he lives.
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