24 magg 1930 anni - Orwell meets Bozo the Screever

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Bozo is a screever, or a pavement artist, and is a friend of Paddy's. Although not entirely significant towards the bulk of the story, Bozo represents a major aspect of what Orwell is attempting to convey within his memoir. Lessons like these, given by a measly, pitiful, old man like Bozo, shapes the reader's perception on poverty. This is why I would surely recommend this memoir to anyone, as it offers many experiences and moments that widens the scope on a person's purpose, and the impact poverty has on this purpose. The memoir is realistic, though, also representing dark and corrupt corners of society. However, it is largely an optimistic read into human interactions within the world of extreme poverty.

‘You seem to know a lot about stars.’

‘Not a great lot. I know a bit, though. Now and again I go out at night and watch for meteors. The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes.’

‘What a good idea! I should never have thought of it.’

‘Well, you got to take an interest in something. It don’t follow that because a man’s on the road he can’t think of anything but tea-and-two-slices.’

‘But isn’t it very hard to take an interest in things—things like stars—living this life?’

‘Screeving, you mean? Not necessarily. It don’t need turn you into a bloody rabbit—that is, not if you set your mind to it.’

‘It seems to have that effect on most people.’

‘Of course. Look at Paddy—a tea-swilling old moocher, only fit to scrounge for fag-ends. That’s the way most of them go. I despise them. But you don’t NEED to get like that. If you’ve got any education, it don’t matter to you if
you’re on the road for the rest of your life.’

‘Well, I’ve found just the contrary,’ I said. ‘It seems to me that when you take a man’s money away he’s fit for nothing from that moment.’

‘No, not necessarily. If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, ‘I’m a free man in HERE‘‘—he tapped his forehead—‘and you’re
all right.’

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