In George Orwell’s, “Why I Write”, Orwell gives his readers an understanding on how being a lonely child and living through times of war influenced his purpose of writing. For example, Orwell explains that being a middle child of three, along with not having a relation with his father, sparked the start of his literary ambitions. This was because he often made up his own stories and held conversations with himself. He wrote many poems and stories starting from that young age. It wasn’t until he grew up experiencing poverty and becoming aware of the injustice coming from government authority, that he started writing for political purposes. He described wanting to turn political writing into art. “I write it because there is some lie that i want to expose…”, says Orwell. This shows that his main purpose of writing is not only to write about politics, but in an artistic way.