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Remember in the eighties when famine first struck the world. Millions of people and many celebrities joined together to sing “We Are the World,” sent millions of dollars, and devoted countless of hours feeding hungry children, mothers and fathers. Of course that was not the first time hunger occurred on earth. In the late 19th century, there was the Irish potato famine that killed millions of Irishmen, but the “world” did not sing a song for them. What drove people in the eighties to help the starving in Africa? The media. They showed endless footage of suffering, death, and devastation day and night without relief. In the same way, George Orwell, in “The Marrakech,” uses literature as the television of his times. He takes on the persona of a news reporter armed with a camera that enables him to bombard his audience with images without relief also. Like a news report, George Orwell catches his reader’s attention with a headline that makes them ask why. In this first paragraph, the audience’s first question becomes “why do the flies come back from t