George Orwell

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experiences.
It was August 1914, right after the start of World War One. Three children were playing in a garden at the end of the summer holidays, on the Oxfordshire side of the Thames River. The children saw a young boy about their age standing on his head from across the street. The children asked the boy why he was on his head. The boy responded “you are noticed more if you stand on your head than if you are right way up.” This young boy was Eric Blair who later in life adopted the name George Orwell, the famous author of “1984” and many other classics. George Orwell, one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century, was greatly influenced not only by his English heritage but also by his many life experiences.
George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, an Indian town twenty-five miles south of the Nepalese border. Orwell’s parents were both Scottish and he had two sisters. His father was an official at the Opium Department of ...

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five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversation with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start of my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for failure in everyday life. (32)
Orwell wrote his first poem at the age of five, in ...

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