An Analysis Of George Orwell's Coming Up For Air
Orwell was given money by friends to travel to Marrakech, in Morocco to help him recover from his severe throat injuries received in the Spanish Civil War. He was only in Morocco for about six months (September 1938 to February 1939), during which time he wrote this essay and one of his novels, Coming Up For Air.
Orwell’s Marrakech is a rather bleak look at the way he saw the relationship between the white and black people of the city in which he stayed, surrounded by appalling poverty.
He describes the funeral custom of simply wrapping bodies in sheets and dumping them in shallow ditches with barely a layer of dirt over them, no ceremonies or headstones, etc. He knew that when he walked over bumpy dusty mounded ground, he was standing on
Orwell’s Marrakech is a rather bleak look at the way he saw the relationship between the white and black people of the city in which he stayed, surrounded by appalling poverty.
He describes the funeral custom of simply wrapping bodies in sheets and dumping them in shallow ditches with barely a layer of dirt over them, no ceremonies or headstones, etc. He knew that when he walked over bumpy dusty mounded ground, he was standing on