Reading Modern Society: A Review of George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier

READING MODERN
SOCIETY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Context of the book......................................................................................................................3
About the author..........................................................................................................................3
The background and perspective.................................................................................................4
Methodology and methods...........................................................................................................5
The book itself.............................................................................................................................6
Legacy of the book.......................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION –

1-make sure you use either Calibri light or ariel.
2- make sure you use double (2.0)
Also make sure you use medium size paragraphs ( 4-7lines)
Review where you do the following: 1- Start by explaining the purpose of the reportwhich is to
review the book you chose 2- Briefly explain what is the book about 3- Explain the structure of
the report (which means what step you will be taking) 4-Explain how did you collect the data to
complete the report
Report examines the context of the book, provides information on the basis of history of
writer. It also shows when the book was commissioned and what the book aims towards. Also,
it shows the methods that were used by author to do his social research and identify th
problems faced by the people.
In 1930's George Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the problem of
mass unemployment in the industrial area of northern England. He went to investigate the
most typical section of British working class in Yorkshire and Lancashire (Rizvanbegovic, 2018).
Road to Wigan Pier is a book which is divided in two parts; the first part is about the
working class people living in the industrial areas of North England, and the second part
examines the author's political view point on socialism. The book is a powerful and an insightful
account of lives living in meagre government support and low wages and poverty. And also,
vivid description of the dignity and courage of the people.
MAIN BODY
Context of the book In this section you need to explain what was happening at the time the
book was written and that by looking at the political, social and cultural factors
The Road to Wigan Pier is book written by George Orwell, it was first published in 1937,
the book is divided into two parts (Orwell, 2021). The first part shows the living style of people
who belong to working class in Yorkshire and in England some industrial area before world war
II. The second part is an essay on the upbringing of the middles class with development of
political conscience and questioning attitude of British towards socialism.