AQA-style Language Paper 2: Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives HOMELESSNESS SOURCE A: George Orwell and Out in Paris and London” – “Down Published in 1933, this is an autobiographical extract on the theme of poverty. 1 Paddy was my mate for about the next fortnight, and, as he was the first tramp I had known at all 2 well, I want to give an account of him. I believe that he was a typical tramp and there are tens of 3 thousands in England like him. 4 He was a tallish man, aged about thirty-five, with fair hair going grizzled and watery blue eyes. 5 His features were good, but his cheeks had lanked and had that greyish, dirty in the grain look 6 that comes of a bread and margarine diet. He was dressed, rather better than most tramps, in a 7 tweed shooting-jacket and a pair of old evening trousers with the braid still on them. He was 8 careful of his appearance altogether, and carried a razor and boot brush that he would not sell 9 though one would have known him for a tramp a hundred yards away. There was something in 10 his drifting style of walk, and the way he had of hunching his shoulders forward, essentially abject. 11
AQA-style Language Paper 2: Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives HOMELESSNESS SOURCE A: George Orwell – “Down and Out in Paris and London” Published in 1933, this is an autobiographical extract on the theme of poverty. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Paddy was my mate for about the next fortnight, and, as he was the first tramp I had known at all well, I want to give an account of him. I believe that he was a typical tramp and there are tens of thousands in England like him. He was a tallish man, aged about thirty-five, with fair hair going grizzled and watery blue eyes. His features were good, but his cheeks had lanked and had that greyish, dirty in the grain look that comes of a bread and margarine diet. He was dressed, rather better than most tramps, in a tweed shooting-jacket and a pair of old evening trousers with the braid still on them. He was careful of his appearance altogether, and carried a razor and boot brush that he would not sell though one would have known him for a tramp a hundred yards away. There was something in his drifting style of walk, and the way he had of hunching his shoulders forward, essentially abject.
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