How The Poor Die

In the essay “How The Poor Die ”George Orwell who was a novelist,essayist,critic and polemicist with socialist preoccupations,comments on the overall condition of the society through personal experiences.Here in the essay he seems an acute observer of social deprivation and injustice.Orwell describes through this essay the death of patients in poverty in the French hospital. The writer spent several weeks in public wards in Paris where he saw the dying patients in extremely bad conditions.The essay is about the stay of poor ill people in the public wards of French hospital,their dirty surrounding,absence of proper medical treatment,medical facilities and food for them.Instead of recovering,the condition of patients became worse within time and most of them died.In this way the writer describes the plight and misery of the poor people of society,who sometimes under suppressing economic conditions are forced to take refuge in these hospitals and as a result these paupers are treated as s...