things in life
             were unattainable since they all depended not only on what you did but
             on what you were. Blair succeeded in receiving a scholarship to
             Wellington and later to Eton, the famous public school. He went to Eton,
             where he became , he says, "an odious young snob" at 15. His relative
             poverty ( he was surrounded by sons of tycoons and noblemen) made
             In the essay "Why I Write" he says, "From a very early age, perhaps
             the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer." At
             Eton, literature was not one of the major subjects. Students were either
             irremediably unliterary or so literary that to teach them "English Literature"
             would be absurd. Therefore, Blair had a small interest in schoo
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