George Orwells A Homage To Catanolia

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George Orwell’s ‘A Homage to Catalonia’

                                                        

George Orwell’s ‘A Homage to Catalonia’ is a very emotional piece. We find this from the beginning of the extract when Orwell starts off with “it is very hard to describe what I Felt”. From this we feel quite sympathetic towards him. It becomes clear he finds it awkward and hard to speak of such events without recollecting and recurs the negative emotions he went through.

Orwell uses onomatopoeia in the second paragraph by describing his fatality by using “bang and flash” as if a rifle is going off. It shows the sudden and quickness of it. I feel this also shows how quick the life was snatched away from the soldiers ‘in a flash’.

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Orwell seems a loving type. He often mentions his wife and his family giving us a ‘family man’ persona i.e. emotional and caring. It allows us to see that they are highly important to him. The most sentimental part lies in his last moments where he says “first thought, conventionally enough was for my wife”. Once again we pity him for the fear and pain he had to endure.

The extract is from his autobiography. This means it is a very biased account. The things he says can not be backed up and things could be exaggerated and ...

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