In 1928, Orwell moved to Paris and began a series of low paying jobs. Orwell moved to Burma in 1922, where he served as an Assistant Superintendent of Police for five years before he resigned because of his growing dislike for British Imperialism.

At Eton, he came into contact with liberalist and socialist ideals, and it was here that his initial political views were formed. Because literature was not an accepted subject for boys at the time, Orwell studied the master writers and began to develop his own writing style. Orwell's first published work, the poem 'Awake Young Men of England,' was printed in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard when he was eleven years old. However, the young Orwell had a gift for writing, which he recognized at the age of just five or six. The Orwell family was not wealthy, and, in reading Orwell's personal essays about his childhood, readers can easily see that his formative years were less than satisfying. Young Orwell was brought to England by his mother and educated in Henley and Sussex at schools. Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, born in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India, during the time of the British colonial rule.

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