provincial bigotry‚ and eventually world war. Yet Orwell ’s deep acculturation in traditional middle-class British mores and patriotic sentiments clashed with his sensitivity to class and racial bias. In particular Orwell ’s travel essays on Marrakech and Burma (now Myanmar) are ambiguous but important examples of how literature that seeks sympathy with or advocacy for other cultures and groups also demonstrates how the identities of writers‚ their subjects‚ and those who read their work are constructed by
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"Shooting an Elephant‚" by George Orwell is a first person view on living and working as a European police officer in Moulmein‚ Lower Burma. There was a bit of tension between the locals and the foreign law enforcement since the British had taken over the country‚ so Orwell was not thought fondly of. The climax of this essay was when a otherwise tame elephant starts rampaging because is had gone into "must" a term used on page 118 that means in heat. The owner loses track of the animal in the
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attention of the reader so well is because Blair writes with an unmistakably strong exigency. It is this need of his to tell the world the truth about imperialism that enables him to write something so captivating. Blair found himself in Moulmein‚ Burma‚ as a police officer of the town. He found out what imperialism really is in its naked form‚ and the nature of it‚ from an incident in which he was practically pushed into shooting an elephant by the Burmese people. Although he did not want to shoot
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In the article " A Hanging " written by George Orwell‚ the main idea is that warden and jailer in Burma should give prisoners a good time and mood to die or even not to die but with other punishment. Before the hanging‚ prisoners are alive like us. Each time they avoid the puddles and screaming in front of the gallows‚ the author feels an unspeakable wrongness. The author wrote this story with a emotional tone. He tried to pursaude us in a tone and mood but not actual detial. " I saw the mystery
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being a leader. As a daughter of a political man‚ she was raised with awareness on how dirty politics could possibly be. In fact‚ she faced the cruelty of the world she lived when she lost his father at a very young age of 2. She escaped the wrath of Burma for a while yet‚ she was pulled once again into the battle field even if she had the choice to stay in England with her family. She chose to lead the people towards justice‚ rather than keeping mum faraway with her husband and children. What kind
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Task 2.1: An analysis of ”Shooting an Elephant”‚ by George Orwell. This non-fiction essay is a report of George himself shooting an elephant. He is a sub-divisional police officer of the town Moulmein in lower Burma. It is here he experiences a kill of an elephant. And it is not just a kill‚ he kills it with a rifle in front of about two thousands Indians. The elephant had gone savage and rampaged homes and killed men. Orwell reports an Indian man who was grounded into the mud by the elephant with
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inability to decide. In‚ “ Shooting An Elephant”‚ choices are made for the pleasure of others. The theme in this short autobiographical essay deeply affects the entire story. Being unwanted had an enormous impact on Orwell. George Orwell lived in lower Burma where he was a sub- divisional police officer. Sadly‚ most of the towns inhabitants had a strong dislike for him because of the color of his skin‚ white. Orwell had to endure cruel insults and hurtful embarrassments. The harmless police officer was
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When did it happen? | May 2008 | | Where did it happen? Brief description of the storm. | Myanmar. Cyclone Nargis was a rare‚ eastward moving at low-latitude strong tropical cyclone that caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Burma | | Casualties | 150‚000 died. 1.5 million homeless. | | Economic | Slow down Burma’s economy. | | Environmental | Rice fields were flooded on the Irrawaddy Delta2008 and 2009 harvests of rice were destroyed | | Social | In many villages
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Human Rights Watch. (2012). The Government Could Have Stopped This: Sectarian Violence and Ensuing Abuses in Burma’s Arakan State Human Rights Watch. (2013). All You Can Do is Pray: Crimes against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma Arakan State Inquiry Commission‚ Union of Myanmar. (2013‚ July‚ 8). Final Report of Inquiry Commission on Sectarian Violence in Rakhine State Rubeinstein‚ R.‚ E. (2003). Sources. In Cheldelin‚ S.‚ Druckman‚ D.‚ & Fast‚ L. (Eds.)‚ Conflict: from analysis
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between his own morals and the push and pull of society. In his story‚ “Shooting an Elephant”‚ Orwell serves as a sub divisional police officer‚ who is against the cruel British. However‚ he also despises the mockery he is given by the natives of Burma. He knows that killing the elephant is wrong‚ but cannot find the courage to stand up to his fear of being laughed at. “And suddenly I realized that I should have to shoot the elephant after all. The people expected it of me… as I stood there with
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