Orwell uses numerous descriptions to describe the prisoner and the hanging. When describing the prison guards, few details are given that show how insensitive they have become to what is happening. The guards cannot see the effects of ending a person's life. The speaker offers a different view of hanging. He notices how he has become numb to the fact realizing that this is a real man who is still thinking and processing that he is about to be killed. These two different responses to the hanging, along with the vivid and candid descriptions, confound readers' emotions and beg them to answer difficult questions. The reader must take a stand in favor of the justness of the death penalty. The reader is given limited information about the case of the story, but through the plethora of descriptions the reader is able to make a