1984 help?

Question

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." I know it's in book one chapter three.

Answer 1

OK, but what do you want to know?

from a famous passage in George Orwell's novel 1984:

"He who controls the past, controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past."

This is the motto of the Ministry of Information, spoken by O'Brien. Essentially, those who are in power write the history books. Our view of history--how we are told it happened--shapes our response to that history, and hense our future. There is no objective past, because there is no objective human being. We are subject to the winners' gloating."


Part One
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. (I.1)
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU (I.1)
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER (I.1)
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. (I.1)
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH (I.1)
The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. (I.1)

Answer 2

Is this George Orwell's 1984? I might be reading it for English class.