Response To Shooting An Elephant
What do you expect?
Before reading the essay, at the first sight of browsing through the title ”Shooting an elephant,” it stroke me as an issue discussing the protection of extinct animals and what came to my mind is the impression of how human beings ravage the habitat of animals.
With the story moving ahead, I assumed that the narrator would not yield to the external pressure he had been given. Nevertheless, it turned out that he eventually shot the elephant in a brutal and cruel way.
What happens in the story?
The story took place in the Burma, undergoing the period of being colonized by British. As a representative of British Empire, it seemed destined to the narrator’s being taunted by the anti-European locals and it did not matter his sympathy and commiseration toward the Burmese. He mentioned how he hated the imperialism, regarding it as an evil thing, and even showed his support to the oppressed. It was the morning that he was rung up by the sub-inspector due to the riot of a ravaging elephant appearing in the bazaar. He was in charge of settling the incident down. Under such a pressure he bore with, he was compelled to shoot the elephant which substantially against his will. Not until the incident happened did he realize what a quandary the conqueror may be faced with. He merely shot the elephant for the purpose of retaining his face like what he had said ”solely avoid acting like a fool.”
What does the story mean? Can you express its theme or themes?
*The nature of the imperialism and its by-product─resentment
Contrary to colonialism, imperialism is accurately considered having the all-around impacts on the colonies. The narrator gained the epiphany of the real nature of the imperialism is a relatively conception. As the statement he said, he is nothing more than an absurd puppy pushed back and fro in front of the natives which is as same as the status he was toward the British Empire. The superficial empowerment they gave to him is a mere façade which
Before reading the essay, at the first sight of browsing through the title ”Shooting an elephant,” it stroke me as an issue discussing the protection of extinct animals and what came to my mind is the impression of how human beings ravage the habitat of animals.
With the story moving ahead, I assumed that the narrator would not yield to the external pressure he had been given. Nevertheless, it turned out that he eventually shot the elephant in a brutal and cruel way.
What happens in the story?
The story took place in the Burma, undergoing the period of being colonized by British. As a representative of British Empire, it seemed destined to the narrator’s being taunted by the anti-European locals and it did not matter his sympathy and commiseration toward the Burmese. He mentioned how he hated the imperialism, regarding it as an evil thing, and even showed his support to the oppressed. It was the morning that he was rung up by the sub-inspector due to the riot of a ravaging elephant appearing in the bazaar. He was in charge of settling the incident down. Under such a pressure he bore with, he was compelled to shoot the elephant which substantially against his will. Not until the incident happened did he realize what a quandary the conqueror may be faced with. He merely shot the elephant for the purpose of retaining his face like what he had said ”solely avoid acting like a fool.”
What does the story mean? Can you express its theme or themes?
*The nature of the imperialism and its by-product─resentment
Contrary to colonialism, imperialism is accurately considered having the all-around impacts on the colonies. The narrator gained the epiphany of the real nature of the imperialism is a relatively conception. As the statement he said, he is nothing more than an absurd puppy pushed back and fro in front of the natives which is as same as the status he was toward the British Empire. The superficial empowerment they gave to him is a mere façade which