What are the effects that Burma had on him? (please be very specific, with detail and cited sources)
2006-10-31 04:30:48 · 4 answers · asked by gamesandshit 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
who is George Orqwell ?
I knew only a George Orwell
start from here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Early_life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Burma_and_the_early_novels
2006-10-31 04:34:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
All Things Considered, July 19, 2005 • When Eric Arthur Blair was 19 years old -- and hadn't yet picked up his pen name of George Orwell -- he went to the far reaches of the British Empire. He joined the Imperial Police Force in Burma and spent five years there in the 1920s.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4761169
Eric Blair, was born in Bengal, India, in 1903. Educated in England at Eton, he moved to Burma in 1922 where he joined the Indian Imperial Police for five years. He eventually resigned because of his increasing disillusionment with British imperialism. More…..
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jorwell.htm
Burmese Days 1934
http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/prose/BurmeseDays/index.html
Poem From Burma
http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/verse/misc/burma.html
Good luck.
Kevin, Liverpool, UK.
2006-10-31 14:38:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Conduct your own research. It isn't like having to run off to the library anymore and pour over reference books and footnote everything.
2006-10-31 14:02:43 · answer #3 · answered by Quasimodo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not here to give away free homework help.
2006-10-31 12:32:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋