Animal Farm 2

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mself how to
write. His neighbors were impressed by his determination. Week after
week he remained in his unheated bedroom, thawing his hands over a
candle when they became too numb to write. In spring of 1928 he turned
his back on his own inherited values, by taking a drastic step. For
more than one year he went on living among the poor, first in London
then in Paris. For him, the poor were victims of injustice, playing the
same part as the Burmese played in their country. One reason for going
to live among the poor was to over come a repulsion which he saw as
typical for his own class. At Paris he lived and worked in a working
class quarter. At the time, he tells us, Paris was full of artists and
would-be artists. There Orwell led a life that was far from bohemian.
When he eventually got a job, he worked as a dishwasher. Once again his
journey was d! ownward into the life to which he felt he should expose
himself, the life of poverty-stricken, or of those who barely scraped
up a living (Stringer, p.415). When he came back to ...