Cool Orwell or 1984 Facts

he got sick a lot, at first he was hospitalized with pneunomia at fairly young age, then, 10 years later was hospitalized again with Tuberculosis, but he was realeeased after a year. then after few years he got sick again (TB) and died from the disease. both of his parents died when they were realtively young for death, i guess that might have something to do with all his ilnesses

He was into poetry before he was a published novelist.
I think it shows that all great writers have to have a background of poetry to exceed in writing anything else. Novels, plays...whatever...they all need to sound "good". There has to be a specific flow of how the words sound to the reader, and you can only learn that by writing poetry and/or studying it.

He worked for the BBC his main task was to write the scripts for a weekly news commentary on WWII

barely saw his father before I was eight.

unpopular throughout his schooldays.

read all the posts, many repeat

He worked for the BBC his main task was to write the scripts for a weekly news commentary on WWII

barely saw his father before he was eight.

unpopular throughout his schooldays.

read all the posts, many repeat

Remember Shooting An ? Well it is a fact that George Orwell was a police man in Burma, just like the man in his story...

For around 5 years he lived in Paris and London in extreme poverty

I found this cool fact saying that George orwell wrote this book called "1984".

I found this cool fact that he was a Indian Imperial police officer in Burma.

Orwell had a small blue notebook that he kept his "crypto communists and fellow travelers" in

His real name was Eric Arthur Blair

He was born in 6/25/1903 in Matihoris, Bensal in India

He was a scholar from 1917 to 1921

He was an Indian Police Officer in Burma

www.netcharles.com/orwell/books/1984.htm

i thought is was really cool that he took a bullet for a country that isnt his

I though it was crazy because he only lived to be 47 years old. He ended up dyeing of tuberculosis

orwell wrote under a pen name because he didn't want his parents or middle class friends knowing about his life on the street and that he was poor.
his dad was an opium agent
before he becaam a writer, his job was washing dishes
the left side of his face was paralyzed by a bullet when he was fighting in the spanish civil war

He wrote 1984 and Animal Farm in a tiny shack on a remote island off of the coast of Scotland.

George Orwell went to the same boarding school as the 2 princes, William and Henry.

Orwell had the desire to experiance jail so, on purpose, he was arrested as a drunk. But fortunalty for Orwell he only remained in jail for a total of 48 hours. This may be a characteristic of his writing because of his "need" to experiance things fully.

His sister’s names were Marjorie and Avril.
Before settling on "George Orwell", Eric Blair had considered using the pseudonyms "P.S. Burton," "Kenneth Miles," and "H. Lewis Allways".
Described his family's background as "lower-upper-middle class".

He spread propaganda for the british empire while he really hated it, because he needed the money.

He hated intullectuals, but was a literature critic.