Essay 2

Name: Rubina keshwani Subject: English 2150 T Essay: (Draft 1) Topic: Compare and Contrast. Date: 04/15/2015 The Unforgettable Experience There comes a time in each and every human being life when they sacrifice their values and beliefs under the pressure of circumstances or people in order to get accepted by the society. “Salvation” by Langston Hughes and “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell are both based on an incident where they had to sacrifice their belief under the pressure of the people around them. The main similarity is that both the narrators went through a situation in their life, where they were pressured to take an important decision which had a great impact on their life and so they narrated their own life unforgettable experience. Hughes in “Salvation” briefly describes about his experience when his aunt took him to church to attend a church revival to be saved from sin but was not really saved whereas in “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell writes about his experience when he was posted as a police officer in the city of Burma and was pressured by the gathered crowd to kill an animal which was left loose. He ultimately decides to shoot the elephant. After reading both the stories I feel sympathetic towards both the authors but I feel more for Hughes as he lost his faith in Jesus at a very young age. I was deeply moved when Hughes says that “I didn’t believe there was a Jesus anymore, since he didn’t come to help me”. Can you imagine the