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George Orwell's Essays: Shooting an Elephant
Life brings with it some unexpected things. Things we didn't anticipate. Really, we just didn't see those things coming. You probably know the feeling. Sometimes those unexpected things exist in the form...
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George Orwell's Essays: A Hanging
This essay, as its title suggests, is about a hanging. It is about an execution. The taking of another life through execution is hardly a trivial matter. Nevertheless, capital punishment continues to...
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George Orwell's Essays: The Spike
‘The Spike’ is George Orwell's first published essay (published in April 1931). What is ‘the spike’ that Orwell writes about? We promise that it has nothing to do with volleyball or needles. Instead...
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George Orwell's Essays: Before Reading
George Orwell lived a relatively short life, and he died in 1950. What do his writings contain that remain relevant to readers today? Why does he remain widely read in the 21st century, and why should...
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George Orwell's Essays: Introduction
George Orwell. Where to start? It is sometimes said that there is ‘peak’ age for reading the writings of George Orwell. As it happens, that time in a human life roughly corresponds to the age you are...
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Time and Space: Letters in Context
When did you last receive a letter? Not a letter from the bank, or the electricity board, or your local government authority. Rather, a letter letter. A letter from a family member, or friend, or an old...
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Further resources
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Dystopian Fiction: A Cultural Debate
Dystopian fiction tends to imagine worlds that, in some way, have gone wrong. Certain dystopian novels are, in a sense, evergreen. Even if you have not read George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four or Aldous...
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Back to School (For Some) Free
If you are in a southern hemisphere IB school, you will, we hope, forgive the self-absorption of your colleagues in the north. For us northerners, it is back to school time. At InThinking, we haven't...
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Time and Space: Thinking Pluralistically
When you read something, is the meaning in the text? If it isn't in the text, or only in the text, where does it exist? What is the role of the reader in determining meaning? Can readers decide that a...