Thursday, February 18, 2010

George Orwell: The Spike

I had a hard time getting into this essay. Either i've never seen this style of writing before or it had a lot of grammatical errors in it and made it hard to concentrate and understand what i was reading.
I'm still a little confused about what exactly a "spike" is. Is it a homeless shelter? a prison? The beginning talks about how they were sitting on the green waiting for the spike to open like its a place they want to go to, but then the rest of the story makes it sound like a prison. At the end they are let go to look for work and stuff on their way to the next spike? I really just don't get it. So overall i just didn't like this essay at all. The way it was written, the words used, or the point of the story. Maybe i just need to be more educated about the background of the author.


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