Some people make decent amounts of money and yet they are still homeless. They still have to live without the luxuries that some live with. Typically the government defines poverty being under a certain type of income, but can one be over that line and still live in poverty? Just because a family makes above a certain type of income bracket, they can still live in poverty. Orwell used the word poverty in his essay.
I think it's ironic that he is talking about all the prejudices he sees and all the injustice, and yet, he himself is being prejudice against the older women walking down the road. It is comparable to this day and age, when people think of elder people as being worthless. It is as if he is saying that because they were older women, he did not take the time to recognize them as people, that in his mind, it was as if they didn't exist at all. Firewood was passing - that was how I saw it". For several weeks, always at about the same time of day, the fild of old women had hobbled past the house with their firewood, and though they had registered themselves on my eyeballs I cannot truly say that I had seen them. But what is strange about these people is their invisibility. All of them are mummified with age and the sun, and all of them are tiny. One passage I thought to be particulary interesting was "every afternoon a file of very old women passes down the road outside my house, each carrying a load of firewood. Oppression of certain races, ethnicities, gender and age occur on an every day basis. Prejudice, although it has come along way, is still present in today's society. He also describes the prejudices that exist within this time and within these towns. The classes may not be as easily defined as they were back then, however they still exist. Many people work hard everyday and yet are not what people would consider "wealthy". I think what he described, even though it may have been many years ago, still can apply in today's society. He described the different towns as he was traveling through them, and explained how he viewed the different people in those towns.
One thing we noticed about this essay, is that he used a lot of imagery. My group looked at Marrkech, by George Orwell.
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