For Miss Pro

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Andrea Cobb

Eng 100

Long Quote Format Exercise

11/6/17

For example, Orwell writes,

The superintendent of the jail, who was standing apart from the rest of us, moodily prodding the gravel with his stick, raised his head at the sound… “For God’s sake, hurry up, Francis,” he said irritably. “The man ought to have to have been dead by this time. Aren’t you ready yet?” The superintendent reached out with his stick and poked the bare brown body… (Orwell 107)

Orwell uses the superintendent’s character to be insensitive, impersonal, and part of the daily routine dealing with the prisoners.

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