George Orwell

Orwell was born in India in 1903. His father worked in the Indian Civil Service, and his mother had grown up in Burma. He also had two sister, Marjoire and Avril. When he was one year old, his mother took him and his siter and moved to England.

Orwell later attended college and his teachers didn't really like him. But later he became a great writer and he is being considered as the 20th century's best chronicler of english culture. His real name isn't really George Orwell, that's just his Pen name. His real name is Eric Arthur Blair.

Compare two poems. "the solider" and "does it matter"

These two poems are very different! "the solider" is written with more difficult words and yo have to interpret in your own way, if you understand it at all. It's about a solider that says what he wants people to think about him if he dies. The second poem, "does it matter" is criticism to the war. How some people could send the worker class of to war and just keep on living their own life. Its is more generally compared to the solider, where there is a solider “talking”.

Does it matter?

Does it matter?--losing your legs?...

For people will always be kind,

And you need not show that you mind

When the others come in after hunting

To gobble their muffins and eggs.

Does it matter?--losing your sight?...

There's such splendid work for the blind;

And people will always be kind,

As you sit on the terrace remembering

And turning your face to the light.

Do they matter?--those dreams from the pit?...

You can drink and forget and be glad,

And people won't say that you're mad;

For they'll know you've fought for your country

And no one will worry a bit.

1.Losing your legs, losing your sight and losing your dreams is the three effects of the war on a soldier this poem touch on.

2.The poem reflects on the attitude that great wars were fought by working-class men on both sides and that the people they were fighting for, were often more the enemy than the people they were fighting against. This is shown in the repeating sentence: “people will always be kind” as long as you fought for you country. The poem says that the people who didn't fight in the war themselves goes on living their lives, while the soldiers have lost big parts of their lives in the war, like their dreams, legs or their sight.

3.Our theory on why this poem has become so popular now is: it was a big honer to fight in a war for your country before, and most young boys had a dream about becoming a soldier, but now more people understand what it contains to be a soldier in a real war, and how it changes a lot of people to face death and loose so much of their life as brutal as in a war.

About Myself!

Hi!

My name is Kristin. I am 18 years old and i just started my senior year. I live in a town called Asker, which lies in the suburbans of Norway's capital, Oslo. I spent my junior year in the US, and went to a high school north in Washington State. I had an awesome time there and have no regrets! I lived in the town Anacortes, and I really hope that I will go back there some day:)