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George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, India, on June 25, 1903. Wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy and had an adopted son name Richard Horatio Blair.]]> 2018-05-15 16:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260921263 Picture 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260922474 2018-05-15 16:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260922474 Writing genres 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260923498 Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism.]]> 2018-05-15 16:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260923498 Awards won or awards named 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260923757 George Orwell’s Statue- Prometheus Hall of Fame Award and Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella

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Orwell best known for two novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four

]]> 2018-05-15 16:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260924099 importance or impact of author's writing. 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260925003 Animal Farm was an anti-Soviet satire in a pastoral setting featuring two pigs as its main protagonists. These pigs were said to represent Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky. And with nineteen eighty-four Orwell gave readers a glimpse into what would happen if the government controlled every detail of a person's life, down to their own private thoughts.]]> 2018-05-15 16:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260925003 famous quotes 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260925765
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” 
― George Orwell, 1984
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” 
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” 
― George Orwell, 1984
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  • Orwell’s first major work explored his time eking out a living in these two cities. The book provided a brutal look at the lives of the working poor and of those living a transient existence. 
  • Not wishing to embarrass his family, the author published the book under the pseudonym George Orwell.

  • After leaving the India Imperial Force, Orwell struggled to get his writing career off the ground and took all sorts of jobs to make ends meet, including being a dishwasher

    • ]]>     2018-05-15 16:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260926444     Title and genre of work 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260928733 Animal Farm first published in England on February 1944]]> 2018-05-15 16:47:25 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260928733 Basic plot 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260929365 Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is an allegorical story about the Soviet Union's early years. At the beginning of the story, Old Major inspires his fellow farm animals to revolt against their human master, Mr. Jones, owner of Manor Farm. Leaders of the animal revolt include two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball.]]> 2018-05-15 16:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260929365 Analysis of main characters 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260929684 Napoleon - The pig who emerges as the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. Based on Joseph Stalin, Napoleon uses military force (his nine loyal attack dogs) to intimidate the other animals and consolidate his power. In his supreme craftiness, Napoleon proves more treacherous than his counterpart, Snowball.



    ]]>     2018-05-15 16:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260929684     Analysis of Point of View 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260930054 George Orwell uses third person omniscient point of view in his novella Animal Farm]]> 2018-05-15 16:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260930054 Analysis of Setting 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260930230
    criticizing the myth of Stalinist that intellectuals all over the West believed. By setting it in England, he brought it that much closer to home.

    ]]>     2018-05-15 16:50:46 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260930230     Analysis of Conflict 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260930471 The conflict between revolutionaries seizing power for the good of the people versus seizing power for their own enrichment. There are a number of conflicts in Animal Farm—the animals versus Mr. Jones, Snowball versus Napoleon, the common animals versus the pigs, Animal Farm versus the neighboring humans—but all of them.]]> 2018-05-15 16:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260930471 Analysis of Author’s Style 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260930767
    Animal farm is a satire written as a fable of the Russian revolution

    ]]>     2018-05-15 16:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260930767     Analysis of Major Theme 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260931102 The corruption of socialist ideals in the Soviet Union; the societal tendency toward class stratification; the danger of a naive working class; the abuse of language as instrumental to the abuse of power.]]> 2018-05-15 16:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260931102 Postmodern Period 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260932137 (1939-1945)]]> 2018-05-15 16:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260932137 Characteristics of era in author work. 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260933597 Many of the characters and events of Orwell's novel parallel those of the Russian Revolution: In short, Manor Farm is a model of Russia, and old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon represent the dominant figures of the Russian Revolution


    ]]>     2018-05-15 16:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260933597     Elements of social criticism 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260933985 George Orwell is an example of an author who uses allegory to show a social criticism effectively. As in his novel Animal Farm, Orwell makes a parody of Soviet Communism as demonstrated by Animal Farm's brutal totalitarian rule, manipulated and exploited working class, and the pigs' evolution into the capitalists they initially opposed.

    ]]>     2018-05-15 16:59:19 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260933985     citation 1 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260937234 “George Orwell.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 15 Feb. 2018, www.biography.com/people/george-orwell-9429833.]]> 2018-05-15 17:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260937234 citation 2 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260937772 “Animal Farm.” SparkNotes, SparkNotes, www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/characters/.]]> 2018-05-15 17:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260937772 citation 3 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260938423 “Animal Farm.” SparkNotes, SparkNotes, www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/facts/.]]> 2018-05-15 17:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260938423 citation 4 18alyssa_guerrero https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260939224 “Animal Farm.” Sandra Cisneros Biography, www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/animal-farm/critical-essays/the-russian-revolution.]]> 2018-05-15 17:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/18alyssa_guerrero/tmcxdb2naob2/wish/260939224