277 George Orwell
The History of Literature
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Orwell's Anti-Colonial Essays, Mafro, Shooting an Elephant and a Hanging
orwell was born in india, and he went to school in england. He worked as a policeman for the british empire in the 19 twenties. His anti colonialism, mafro, shooting an elephant and a hanging are two brilliant essays. When i saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, i saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying. He was alive, just as we are alive. And he talks about just the that his nails were still growing, and that his skin was renewing itself. All the organs of his body were working, toiling away,
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