Orwell, George — Nineteen eighty-four [630]

The dream had also been comprehended by – indeed, in some sense it had consisted in – a gesture of the arm made by his mother, and made again thirty years later by the Jewish woman he had seen on the news film, trying to shelter the small boy from the bullets, before the helicopters blew them both to pieces. — Orwell, George, Nineteen eighty-four, 630

Note

The dream is defined not by its imagery but by a single gesture repeated across three decades — the passage ties the remembered mother to the news-film refugee through one protective arm, giving the whole chapter its emblem.