Early Life
George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) born in Blair in Motihari, Bengal, India, in 1903. He spent his first days in India with his father, and his mother brought him and his older sister, Marjorie, to England and settled in Henley-on-Thames for a year after he was born. He did not see his father until 1907. According to one biography, Orwell's first word was "beastly." He was a sick child, often battling bronchitis and the flu. (Gleason, A., Goldsmith, J., & Nussbaum, M. C. (2005) Orwell started composing his first poem around the age of four, he later wrote "I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued."(Orwell, G. (2005) One of his first literary successes at the age of eleven, and had a poem published in the local newspaper.
In 1911, he was sent to St, Cyprian's in the coastal town of Eastbourne, where he got his first taste of England's class system. On a partial scholarship, Orwell noticed that the school treated the richer students better than the poorer ones. Although he had difficult time socially fitting in at school, but he found comfort in reading books. After he won scholarships to Wellington College and Eton College to continue his studies, he found himself at a dead end. His family do not have enough money to pay for the educational fee. Instead of accepting the scholarship, Orwell decided to join the India Imperial Police Force in 1922. He expresses his experience serving in a number of country stations in the novel Burmes Days (1934) His detailed, sympathetic study of lives of nearly impoverished workers shows how difficult British colonial life was. He felt ashamed of his role as a police officer when he realized how much against their will the Burmese were ruled by the British.
In 1911, he was sent to St, Cyprian's in the coastal town of Eastbourne, where he got his first taste of England's class system. On a partial scholarship, Orwell noticed that the school treated the richer students better than the poorer ones. Although he had difficult time socially fitting in at school, but he found comfort in reading books. After he won scholarships to Wellington College and Eton College to continue his studies, he found himself at a dead end. His family do not have enough money to pay for the educational fee. Instead of accepting the scholarship, Orwell decided to join the India Imperial Police Force in 1922. He expresses his experience serving in a number of country stations in the novel Burmes Days (1934) His detailed, sympathetic study of lives of nearly impoverished workers shows how difficult British colonial life was. He felt ashamed of his role as a police officer when he realized how much against their will the Burmese were ruled by the British.