<Tab/>In Orwell's A Hanging, the foremost thing he accomplished with the reader was the mood of the story. By his detailed descriptions of the setting, it bought out a gravely connotation; this was what Orwell awakened from, death, and sadness. "A sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard." The descriptions showed the atmosphere and how it …showed first 75 words of 741 total…

…showed last 75 words of 741 total…of the guards even joke about the hanging on how some of them don't die, and they have to pull on their legs. The story concluded with everyone having whisky which was a sign of the ability to let go of what happen to them that morning. Overall, the story appeal to me that life supposed to be lived happily before is too late; and the puddle awakened Orwell's life should never be tempered with.