Losing Love (Bookshop Memories)

Ryan Borg Mr. Parsons English 101 9/13/2012 Losing Love In the short essay Bookshop Memories by George Orwell, he recounts the readers somewhat the animation of working at a second hand passwordstore. Orwell goes into brief distri unlessor point about certain remarks, actions or pestering bluebottles that seem to rest and give-up the ghost in the most important and obvious places. Some of the remarks that Orwell made throughout the essay would be like this example, many of the people who came to us were of the manakin who would be a plague anywhere moreover have particular(prenominal) opportunities in a bookshop.For example, the dear obsolete lady who urgencys a book for an invalid (a very common demand, that). (Page 1) Follow that quote the other nuisance is the random special ordered book Orwell encountered was, the other dear doddering lady who read such a nice book in 1897 and wonders whether you can find her a copy. Unfortunately she doesnt remember the championshi p or the authors name or what the book was about, however she does remember that it had a red cover. (Page 1) These encounters aggravated Orwell with no doubt but the rattling reason he lost his love for books was, a bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them still worse is the fact that he is ceaselessly dusting them and hauling them to and fro. (page 5) As one book lover to other the fact that Orwell had to lie about certain books to customers would be near unsurmountable just because its non how Orwell wanted to explain the book but it was what the customers wanted to hear about the book to make the sale.Satisfying the customer or else than being able to speak what you existingly are thinking about the book I could see this would cause Orwell to lose his love for the actual books that he enjoys reading. The other reason that Orwell states in that quote is that he has to constantly dusting them off and moving them to and fro. Analyzing t his quote it is noticeable that Orwell was referring to constantly moving the books almost for customers, the change of seasons, and new inventory that the bookshop got in. Along with shuttling them back and forth, us as a reader, should take in consideration that the books need to be cleaned off nd this is where the dead bluebottles and dust start to affect his real love for books. After Orwell states the real reason he loses his love for books he does include another quote which is, nowadays I do obtain one occasionally, but only if it is a book that I want to read and cant borrow, and I never buy junk. The sugared smell of decaying paper appeals to me no longer. (page 5) To me, as the reader, I take this decry that Orwell does not like to read books that are 50 years old or older because it brings back the memories of shuttling and dusting off the dead bluebottles from the books.It also suggests that he still will read a quality book, news article, or other type of publicati on but he will not purchase it since there were so many customers that went into the second hand bookstore to buy books so they could use them as a showing world for people to make assumptions of who they actually were. In this essay this Orwell gave complex hints to the reasons why he lost his love for books in ways throughout the totally essay but he gave his real reason in the persist paragraph of the essay as it was pointed out previously.