https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz Consider: Employers; religion; government; landlords en-us 2016-09-20 04:09:21 UTC 2025-09-27 13:38:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959305 2016-09-20 05:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959305 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959306 2016-09-20 05:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959306 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959307 "Jules grew more and more enraged at the trick the patron had played on us" (Orwell, 107, ch. XIX)

With the lure of money, the patron was able to convince most people at first that the restaurant was ready to open. He, instead, manipulated the workers to finish a lot of the work for promises of reimbursement. ]]> 2016-09-20 05:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959307 s00113 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959329 Presently the door opened and a lady in a blue silk dress, wearing gold spectacles and a crucifix, welcomed us in." (149, Chap XXVI, London)

The narrator and a wizened old Irishman meet and talk about spikes and tobacco. The Irishman says that he knows a place that they can get tea and buns for free as long as they sat through a religious service.
After getting their buns and tea they are forced to sing and pray together for half an hour and during the whole service they are required to remove their hats which to a tramp makes them feel "indecently exposed." This is in contrast to the woman leading the service who is garbed in nice clothing and accessories in comparison to the tramps.


"...they are too like workhouses for my taste. In some of them there is even a compulsory religious service once or twice a week which the lodgers must attend or leave the house... the Salvation Army are so in the habit of thinking themselves a charitable body that they cannot even run a lodging-house without making a stink of charity." (Chap 29, London)

Paddy and the narrator decide to go to the Salvation Army to spend the night.
They enter and find rules after rules as well as a strict timetable to be followed if they wanted to stay there. The men in charge are referred to as officers and they march around as if they were in the actual army. The way that they are forced into obedience displays a level of oppression at the hands of the Salvation Army in order to stay there.]]> 2016-09-20 05:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959329 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959529 Prostitution is not illegal in France until 2014 or 2015. The government seems to take little measures in aiding the poor. Contrast between the wealthy and the ones that are not Opulent are "wasteful" (Orwell, 16) 

British government pose challenges to those living in poverty by creating a law which means that individuals can only stay at a a spike for one night at a time. (You also can't enter 'any two London spikes more than once in a month) on pain of being confined for a week' 

Chapter 27, "With its rows of tiny barred windows and a high wall and iron gates separating it from the road, it looked much like a prison"

"At night the policemen would only come through the streets together. It was a fairly rackety place" (Orwell, 2)

This proves the danger hidden within the slum yet the government was more worried about the policemen patrolling the streets rather than improving the lives of those who were considered "dangerous" ]]> 2016-09-20 05:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959529 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959541 "It was a filthy place. Yet the deputy and his wife were friendly people" (p.g 2)  
This contradicts with the imagery of Madame Monce, the stereotypical aggressive landlord across the street. It's used to show that there is a more gentle, and friendlier side to the society that he's encountering.
Similar to this, in Orwell's essay "The Spike", the "Tramp Major" was quite nice to Orwell - gave him a favourable job at the spike for the day. ]]> 2016-09-20 05:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959541 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959560 "We quarreled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance was an unending source of quarrels." (Orwell, 119)

"Poor old woman, [the dustbin] was too heavy for her to lift, and she sat down, put her head on the table and burst out crying. And I jeered at her." (Orwell, 119)

Sometimes even the employed tries to hurt and oppress others. Even though "we agreed beforehand that the engueulades of working hours did not count between times; but we had called each other things to bad to be forgotten. " (Orwell, 119)

"Oppression", per se, disintegrates the employees disposition (particularly Orwell himself and Boris) and they themselves turn on each other perhaps in anger of their misfortunes or to simply become the oppressors themselves. ]]> 2016-09-20 05:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959560 s00113 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959566 2016-09-20 05:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124959566 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124960048 "i had a half penny left. I did not care to ask for money yet." (Orwell, 147, ch. XXVI, London)

Expectations that B. had of the narrator (Orwell) on being "well-off" made the narrator consider waiting longer before asking for help, preferring to live as a tramp.

Shows the "cruel efficiency" of England's labour system. the unemployed are desperate for money and are thus forced to work for very low wages. Clearly depicted on how Orwell "[does] not care to ask for the money".]]> 2016-09-20 05:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124960048 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124960306 "I used to sell a few of my clothes, smuggling them out of the hotel in small packets" (p.g 17) 

The narrator is expected to show that he can support himself so that he isn't kicked out. Though he does manage to pay rent before he gets robbed. 
Describing the life in poverty. In desperation for money, everyone becomes merciless. His interactions with the shopman, the narrator chose scenes that portray a stereotypical greedy Jewish man who doesn't even care for the old woman. The narrator is also mocking the man's nose, as typical, it is a very easy to pick on feature. 
Later in the book, we also see that Boris and the narrator smuggle the things out to the pawnshop. ]]> 2016-09-20 05:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124960306 https://padlet.com/barrowcliffjane/cbafbtnhnruz/wish/124960607 We went to a small cafe off the Rue de Rivoli, a well known rendezvous hotel for managers and employees... Sometimes a stout, important looking man, obviously a restaurateur, would come in and speak to the barman... But he never called to Boris or me." (Orwell, 28-29, ch. V)


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