Summary Of Shooting An Elephant

In the passage, Shooting an Elephant a hated police officer killed an elephant. Orwell was asked to come and do something about an elephant ravaging a bazaar. On his way, he ran into Various Burman’s that told him what the elephant was doing. He figured that is was not anything to serious, the elephant would eventually calm down. The elephant was heated. The night before it had broken out of its chain and escaped. The elephant’s mahout was the only one who can manage it but he was about twelve hours away. After hearing multiple stories of this elephant Orwell started to believe most of the details were lies. Suddenly he hears from a distance an old lady yelling out “Go away, child! Go away this instant!” Orwell rounded the hut and seen that there was a man lying dead in the mud. Many people said the elephant was coming around the corner of the hut caught him with its trunk, puts its foot on his back, and basically grounded him into the earth. After seeing the man’s body Orwell went sent an orderly to a friend’s house to borrow an elephant riffle. When the orderly returned with it some Burmans told Orwell that the elephant was in the paddy. As Orwell started to walk towards that way the whole population of the quarter followed him. They spotted the riffle and began to start shouting. Orwell had no intentions on shooting the elephant. At the bottom of the hill was where the
The introduction ends sort of half way down the second page and right after is where the narrative itself begins. The essay almost has no dialogue, and I fell that is because there was so much to be explained and so much detail that this essay needed to have so it was no room for what others were saying. I think Orwell devoted so much attention to the elephant’s misery only because he had no intension on killing this elephant and that’s where he began to feel guilty in my