George Orwell Exerpt Responded my ME!

What do words really mean when we use words in so many different ways? When we write we tend to use a select few of words that we repeatedly use during our writing process but each time we use the word it can contain a different meaning. So why is this, I yet have to discover this meaning, but George Orwell seems to have a grasp on why or at least identifies the fact that the English language misused. He mentions several times that most words that are commonly used don’t have the value they used to have or are not as “concrete” as they used to be.

Though his language in his own writing was much older than what we are used to, it still made sense to me. He explains many times that when writing a paper that you are trying to prove a point or you’re trying to persuade someone to join your side on, using few words with many meanings will not help you. Since words can mean something else to different people, depending on their background. Orwell states himself, "Phrases consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases that are tacked together like sections of a prefabricated henhouse." Point given, even like society, the value in what we do is not there like it used to be. The way we build houses and the community support, but that’s beside the point, they point is that they value we apply to words is not what it used to be were each meaning or phrase had its own unique separate set of words.

So like my own writing, I need to prepare my paper to draw my audience with different and unique words, not words that will confuse the reader, but words that will attract them. Plus I want to allow them to easily understand the reading so they can relate or see what my point is to the best of my ability and to comprehend to the best of their ability. As Orwell was stating in his writing, don’t be vague, even though it has become a way of the modern way of life in essays, trying and stray from it. Which is one thing I will be trying to do in my paper.