George Orwell or the name he is most famous for was an English essayist, and also a popular critic. He became such starting off with a rough life, and finding his own way through life by following what he believed to be right. Orwell also spoke his opinion, and if I did, I think I’d go by another name as well. His involvement in the events going on around him made him able to create such deep and satirical writings. He is most famous for his satires, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, both of which came toward the end of his career, as he had bad health issues and spent most of his life from hospital to hospital. Born on the 25th of June in 1903, Eric Arthur Blair started his life in India where at the time his father was a minor customs official in the Indian Civil Service. By the time he was four, his family had returned to a small town near London. At the age of eight, he began his studies at a boarding school on a partial scholarship in England. The scholarship was a key in his success in life as a middle child of three, his family grew up living in poverty. He furthered his …show more content…
He then moved to a poor end of London called Notting Hill where he would write two novels that would be lost. He had picked up many low income jobs like a kitchen porter and dishwasher, and then started suffering from pneumonia which caused him to move back in with his parents in Suffolk, England around the late 1920’s. He began to get his feet back under him as he was earning a living teaching, and writing. He had completed his first book, Down and Out in London and Paris, which was based on the hardships of his life through his times in London and Paris. As he was still teaching during the publication of his first book, he used a pen name of George Orwell to disguise himself. This was in the early 1930’s, and was the beginning of his