and his life. The Plot Book is in two parts I part indrustrial towns & unemploiment He lives in Brookers lodging-house Miners work is hard: "Travel" through a tunnel - ~1m high, many km long Dig on their knees lot of dust, no air 7,5 hours of work underground Miners have nowhere to wash themselves The Plot Houses in indrustrial downs are in bad shape Mass uneployment & poverty no chance of getting work II part Orwells life and socialism Higher class rejects lower class Middle-class socialists speak against their own class Socialism isn't what it used to be Socialism communism Quotations · "I am not a manual labourer and please God I shall never be one, but there are some kinds of manual work that I could do if I had to. At a pinch I could be a tolerable road- sweeper or an inefficient gardener or even a tenth-rate farm hand. But by no conceivable amount of effort or
was in the library I first took the book ,,1984". I had started to read it I found out that it had been translated into Estonian and it had been made into a movie. I knew that the ,,Animal Farm" is readable in Estonian too. I had no chance, but to choose ,,The Road to Wigan Pier". I first fought it was a novel, but after reading two chapters I found out it was an autobiography. But it was very fassinating to read about the life in United Kingdom in 1930s. And I really enjoyed reading about Orwells thoughts, his life and socialism. I got a lot smarter thanks to this book and it was really interesting to read.