The most important line from a chapter is...

The most important line from the fourth chapter of the book that I am currently reading, 1984, is, "It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones" (Orwell 43). This line is important because it shows the true meaning of what is happening in Winston's society. It's showing how if a living person ever did something that defied the government, then any record of them ever existing had to be erased. But in the Ministry of Truth, you could make up a person who wasn't even real, but they would be passed off as a real person. It shows how society in the books has deteriorated so much that the government can erase anyone they want to and make up someone who was never actually real.

I mean, think about it: what if, one day, one of your friends just disappears from school. You'll probably sit there and wonder, "hm, I wonder where they are"? But if you ask the teacher where they are, they'll just say, "who"? There would be no records of your friend ever existing; pictures, attendance lists, IDs... NOTHING. They would just be gone and forgotten, just like that. That's what it's like in 1984. People would just be snatched up and executed over night, never to be seen again. No trace of them would be left behind. They would just be... gone.