Orwell uses the first person point of view because he witnessed a dead man, hanging by his neck from a rope. Orwell describes the scene as if the readers are witnessing the scene also because he detailed the clanking noise of the mechanism, the twisting of the rope, and the dead, dangling body. Orwell is definitely a participant of the action because he started to laugh for no particular reason.
             The words Orwell uses in this narrative are all characterized by emotion and sympathy. He uses adjectives such as sodden, sickly, and limply to describe the terrible condition of the man and to illustrate the man as a weak person who has already suffered enough. These words contribute to the mood because they force the reader to feel for the man and think deeply on Orwell's purpose. Furthermore, the mood of melancholy and sympathy is maintained when the jailers laugh at the man and throw a bag at his face to stop him from crying.
             Orwell frames his narrative by first describing the setting of the scene which is in Burma, India. He then depicts the man involved in the execution as weak and fragile. He frames his narrative through time in which there is a schedule for the Hindu man. For example, at 8:00 the soldiers brought the man out from his jail, and when the time came, he was the hung from the gallow. Orwell handles the action in a series of steps. First he illustrates the clanking noise of the mechanism, then the twisting of the rope, and finally, the dead, dangling body.
             Orwell uses dialogue in his essay to depict the event realistically so that the readers can visual everything that happened with the execution. He shows the dialect between the jailers and the prisoner, because even in modern day prisons, jailers treat prisoners inhumanely. Towards the end of the essay, the Hindu man cries for help from God and this shows how religious and spiritual he is. Even though he knows what is about to happen with his life, he doesn&a...