July 15, 2005

It's Mister Orwell to You

By RACHEL TOOR

I'm in my pajamas, a half-eaten muffin beside me, a coffee-stained stack of papers from first-year composition students in front of me. The pile doesn't seem to be getting any smaller. I'm slogging through it, when I get to a sentence that causes me to cough up a big bite of breakfast: "George shot the elephant because he felt peer pressure."

I gloss over the interesting use of "peer pressure" as applied to an essay exploring colonial privilege and burden, and say, aloud, to no one but

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