At last Winston has found someone that hates the party as much as he does (Julia). But Winston needs to go that extra step. He’s rebelling against the party privately by having the secret affair. Now he wants to go to the next level and be an active rebel against the government. He gets his chance one day when O’Brien invites him to his house to look at something work related. Winston takes a leap of faith and guesses that O’Brien must be part of the rebellion, because nobody invites people to their home, it just isn’t done. So he and Julia go to O’Brien’s house and confess that they want to be rebels and O’Brien says “yes! I’m a rebel too, and we all read this book that explains why things are the way they are”. Winston takes the book back to his dwelling and reads it to Julia. Immediately afterward, the thought police break in and arrest Julia and Winston and take them to the ministry of love to torture them. This is a significant point in the book because the reader learns about how the whole totalitarian government started and it’s another major turning point in the plot line.
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