"From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books" ( George Orwell, 1946) George Orwell was meant to write books. He writes them extremely well and he has a good way of getting his point across. He plays off of many different literary devices to make his point clear. "Orwell's writings, whether books or essays, have had lasting and smashing impact on people." (Daniel J. Leab, 1997). Orwell's novels get people thinking about the idea given. He has been known to change the political views of many people.
             On June 25th, 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born to Richard Walmesley Blair and Ida Mabel Limouzin. "His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, was in the Opium Department of the Government of India. The opium trade with China had been legalized as a government monopoly from 1860" (George Orwell- A Life, Bernard Crick, 1980). At the age of one George's mother (Ida) took George and his older sister Marjorie back to Oxfordshire, England, to bring the children up there according to Anglo-Indian custom. "Richard Blair stayed in India. In 1908 Ida sent Eric to a small Anglican convent school in Oxfordshire." (Kara Chiodo, 1996) George stayed in that school until 1911 when he applied, and was accepted, to St. Cyprian's, a preparatory school in Eastbourne, Sussex. He was being educated there until 1916. In 1917 he attended Wellington College, but after nine weeks there he realized there was nothing there for him he and went to Eton College. At Eton he contributed regularly to the various college magazines. In 1921 he left Eton and never went onto university. Then in 1922 he decided...