Time line
 George Orwell
 1903  born in India
 1911  went to School
 1912  his mother moved back to England
 1917  won a scholarship
 1921  joined the British police in Burma
 1927  grew dissatisfied and resigned 
 1928  journeyed to Paris
 1932 -1933  worked as a teacher 
 1934  got a part time job
 1933  book was published
 1934  first novel Burmese Days was published
 1935  had another novel published
 1936  Keep the Aspidistra Flying
 1936  got married Eileen
 1936  commissioned to write a book about poverty
 1937  The Road to Wigan Pier was published
 1938  wrote A Homage to Catalonia, published
 1938  suffering from tuberculosis
 1938 -1939   spent the winter of in Morocco
 1939  another novel for Air was published
 1941-1943  worked for the BBC
 1943  literary editor for the Tribune a magazine
 1945  his wife died
 1945  great satire Animal Farm was published
 1949  masterpiece was published
 1949  got married his second wife Sonia
 1950  died


   Turning points

•  joined the British police in Burma
•  worked as a teacher in a small private school
•  married Eileen
•  worked for the BBC 
• 1938 suffering from tuberculosis
•  at the beginning of the Second World War rejected for   military service
•  1943 became literary editor for the Tribune a left wing   magazine
•  married his second wife Sonia

  Achievements

•  won a scholarship
• 1933 first book was published in Paris and London
• 1934 first novel Burmese Days was published
•  had another novel published 
•  another novel, Coming Up For Air was published
•  arriving in Britain  wrote a Homage to Catalonia
• 1945 great satire Animal Farm was published