Analysis: 'To Shoot Or Not To Shooting An Elephant'

“To shoot or not to shoot”. A tamed elephant escaped, the elephant was roaming freely and causing destruction in Moulmein. As a police officer, the narrator had to solve this problem. However, the solution to this problem was to shoot the elephant, which left the narrator in dilemma. The reason for the narrator’s dilemma are three.

First, the narrator considered shooting the elephant to be an immoral act. Therefore, he the narrator did not want to shoot the elephant. Furthermore, the narrator valued the elephant as a productive machine that is the source of the living of the mahout who is the owner of the elephant. In fact, the narrator made his point of view clear by stating: “As soon as I saw the elephant I knew with perfect certainty that