A Child’s Perception versus an Adult’s

In every question asked, there is always a grey area or hesitation. Whether it be as an adult or a child. Depicting the child, Langston Hughes gives the reader a verbal picture by using dialogue. On the other hand, George Orwell emulates an adult; using vivid descriptions relaying a concrete setting. “Langston, why don’t you come? Why don’t you come and be saved? Oh, Lamb of God! Why don’t you come?”(paragraph 10, “…

…still straining and whimpering.” (8) As soon as the reader thinks that the man may have some chance for salvation, he doesn’t. “It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short…” (10) This quote shows Orwell’s final thought and abrupt realization.