George Orwell: A Hanging.

This essay wasn't too bad. Still has some grammatical errors which i don't like, but it makes me think that its just the style of the writer. The writer does make me wonder where the story is taking place and when. He talks about Indians, Eurasians, and Burmese, but then has characters saying english words like bloody. I'm not a big fan of violence or gore so the story wasn't too interesting to me. I do like how at the end of it it becomes sort of lighthearted after such a terrible thing has happened.

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.