Question

Describe the use of figurative language in this excerpt from George Orwell's essay Marrakech, and use evidence from the excerpt to explain the author's view of the British Empire.

Answer 1

"But what is strange about these people is their invisibility. For several weeks, always at about the same time of day, the file 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. Firewood was passing—that was how I saw it. It was only that one day I happened to be walking behind them, and the curious up-and-down motion of a load of wood drew my attention to the human being underneath it. Then for the first time I noticed the poor old earth-coloured bodies, bodies reduced to bones and leathery skin, bent double under the crushing weight."

Answer 2

you'll get a medal!!!