Chapter 13 - Making Connections: In “Shooting an Elephant,” George Orwell observes, “In a job like that you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters. The wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long-term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been flogged with bamboos—all these oppressed me with an intolerable sense of guilt” (para. 2). In “The Wretched of the Earth,” Frantz Fanon writes, “When you examine at close quarters the colonial context, it is evident that what parcels out the world is to begin with the fact of belonging to or not belonging to a given race, a given species” (para. 4). A reader cannot help noticing these writers’ common subject and even common language. Compare the ways that Orwell and Fanon respond to the wretched of the earth seen at close quarters.