“The coal miners are second in importance only to the man who ploughs the soil” according to George Orwell in his informative/personal essay Down in the Mine. George Orwell was a journalist who speaks from personal experiences in his writings. In today's modern world, machines are the dominant factor causing people to assume that to obtain coal, machines are used. Instead, there are hardworking individuals that go hundreds of meters below the earth's surface shoveling coal and Orwell gives his personal take on just how that's done in sequence and in detail. In Orwell's essay, he appeals emotionally to the reader by making you feel like you are down in the mine with him. In short, Orwell wants to inform people that coal miners jobs are way harder
