Non Fiction Response

1. The narrator is sent to boarding school because he got in trouble for wetting his bed, but
after that he then realizes something.
2. I can make a connection between this and and reality because they portray wetting beds
on the media as a sign of being scared, weak, or shy.
3. The author’s purpose is to describe his childhood because he uses “I” to show that he is
the one that is telling his childhood.
4. The audience consists of people who like his work because he gives details that his fans
might be interested in his work in the future, which makes him be more open and honest
about his past.
5. He describes his past as being depressing because described how he would cry.
6. Orwell uses his Pathos to stand his ground on saying he had a sad childhood and
exercises credibility by describing his own life.
A. “ I remember that this was the only time throughout my boyhood when a beating actually
reduced me to tears, and curiously enough I was not even now crying because of the
pain,” (Orwell).
B. “And the double beating was a turning-point, for it brought home to me for the first time
the harshness of the environment into which I had been flung,”(Orwell).
C. “But at any rate this was the great, abiding lesson of my boyhood: that I was in a world
where it was ​not possible ​for me to be good,” (Orwell).
7. The previous three quotes lead me to believe that a theme for this essay is sadness is
temporary even if you try to be happy.
8. It gave me a better understanding of how his life was and how it seems that he gets
inspire from his past to write his books.
9. Something I would change would be to have a title to grabs people attention.
10. In Orwell’s essay, the narrator demonstrates that sadness is temporary and that even if
you try to be happy, it won't ever change. Orwell uses pathos many times in order to
describing his childhood. An example would be when the author says,“But at any rate
this was the great, abiding lesson of my boyhood: that I was in a world where it was ​not
possible​ for me to be good,” (Orwell). This is a description of a sadness that Orwell
learned as a kid while growing up. But, the word that he later indicates, ‘was’, shows that
his depressive and lonely state will come to an end. Overall, Orwell shows in his essay,
that sadness is temporary and that it won't ever leave you.