1. What is the author’s attitude toward the coolie’s death? What details in the passage reveal this attitude?
The author appears horrified d towards the Dravidian’s manner of death. When the narrator first stumbles upon the corpse, he writes of the body ‘sprawling in the mud’, how the coolie is spread-eagled in the dirt. The narrator continues to vividly describe the coolie, all details that serve to emphasize the terribleness of the death. Finally, the clause ‘grinning with an expression of unendurable agony’ reveals sympathy towards the dead man.

2. Examine the last sentence of this paragraph. How would it have affected the overall impact had Orwell written, his eyes wide open, his teeth bared and grinning…?
If Orwell had used a personal