First, I shall look at the life of the author. Eric Arthur Blair was born on June 25 th , 1903 in India and moved to England with his family in 1911. He went to school in England and was a very smart child, later he went to Eton college in England and studied there from 1917 to 1921. After he completed collage rather than going to a university (where he could have earned many scholarships) he traveled back to India to become a member of the Indian Imperial Police. He never gave up his passion for writing while he was there and wrote several books about his experiences. He later came back to Europe and chose to live a poorer life and lived with laborers and beggars. This was because he hated imperialism and was very against the bourgeoisie lifestyle and the upper class. His dislike of imperialism and his rather different political beliefs caused him to begin calling himself a socialist however, he never went so far as to become a communist. Later in his life he fought in the Spa
