Orwell, George. "The Spike." Fifty Essays by George Orwell. Project Gutenberg of Australia, Aug. 2003. Web.
The Spike was about George Orwell’s life while living in London. At this time Orwell was living in London in spikes, which are shelters. Times were hard, Orwell had no money, and he lived in a variety of shelters. You could only stay at spikes one night at a time. If you went to two or more spikes in London, more than once in a single month there was a possibility of being confined for a week. You couldn’t take any valuables in because they would be confiscated and you would be thrown out of the Spike, so everyone would burrybury their belongings like cigarettes and tobaccothings outside, and get them the next morning. When theyyou entered the sSpike, they wereyou were sent to the bBathroom where they were searched, while in the bathroom theyyou was given three minutes to bathe. Tramps were fed bread, garlic and “and a pint of so called tea” anytime of the day. After the dinner they would be herded to …show more content…
The cell doors locked at seven and wasn’t reopened for another twelve hours. Orwell describes the spike as “It was a gloomy, chilly, limewashed place, consisting only of a bathroom and a dining-room and about a hundred narrow stone cells…The cells measured eight feet by five, and, had no lighting apparatus except a tiny, barred window high up in the wall, and a spyhole in the door.” During this time Smallpox