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    Critical Response Essay I class‚ we read a short story by George Orwell called Shooting an Elephant. It was a story about courage‚ judgment‚ and the pressure of peers. I personally did not like this story. I found it boring‚ pointless‚ and just another "hasn’t -this -happened -to -you" story about nothing. However‚ it was very well written‚ and if I had to critically respond to this story‚ I would praise the author on a number of things. The story opens by describing the relationship between

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    Shooting an Elephant is a self-identity essay written by George Orwell recounting his time as an Imperial guard in Burma. He describes the ways that he was treated and how he was hated and seen as a symbol of the oppressive Imperials that he worked for. Orwell discussed how he had grown disenfranchised with imperialism and decided that it “was an evil thing and the sooner I chucked up my job and got out the better.” Orwell described his job in terms where he was on the front line‚ and wrong side

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    Shooting An Elephant The well written narrative essay of George Orwell (shooting An Elephant) and Salvation of Langston Hughes‚ dealing with their life story and experience show the set of qualities that make each author distinctive. However‚ the authors used a particular way to narrate their story making them alive. So this particular way used by each of them let make a critical comparison and contrast analysis related to each author personality. Langston Hughes toward Salvation used an

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     suggesting the men are subhuman and inherently barbaric. Suggests Orwell’s hatred towards those who make his life a living hell. We see Orwell as a european at his wits end from the drip effect of torment. Endless little jibes are having a large emotional impact upon the colonial sparking a deep­seated hatred for those who bully him incessantly. This hatred he directs particularly towards the young Buddhist priests of whom none “seemed to have anything better to do except stand on street corners and jeer at

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    British writer whose literature is marked by criticism of social injustice. The essay “Shooting an Elephant” is one of George Orwell’s most well-known works. The essay was wrote in 1936‚ it describes a story what happened in 1926‚ while Orwell was working as a British police officer in Burma‚ where in order to build the role of an assertive police officer and a brave white man‚ he has to shoot an aggressive elephant. He is conflicted with his character as a white‚ male officer and the morality deep

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    a high cost. On the other hand‚ the story "Shooting an Elephant” was wrote by George Orwell base on his personal experience in Moulmein‚ in Lower Burma .He served his country‚ "British Empire as a colonial administrator. The author described the effects on the oppressed Burmese Indians and theirs oppressor British Empire. The internal conflict of British men‚ his feelings and convictions linked to his pride from of the angry crowd. Shooting an Elephant is more than a personal experience story‚ is

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    "Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by George Orwell‚is a colonial policeman in Moulmein‚ Lower Burma who is hated and disrespected by the local people of Burma.Whom also must obey the order of the British imperialism without a choice. as Orwell suffers from the Burmese Orwell is confuses‚because he is secretly on their side‚ and opposed to the oppressive British empire he serves.through his work handling wretched prisoners gives him a close-up view of “the dirty work of Europe” in the process it

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    On a surface level‚ “Evil in the Kindest of Places” by Luke Hulse and “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell do not share an outstanding number of similarities. Given‚ both memoirs do recount a time in the life of the narrator that shaped their character in some meaningful way. The two stories shine when it comes to giving the reader a sense of the dread or futility of the situation the storyteller has found themselves in. When reading Hulse’s work‚ it is difficult not to feel the tension and terror

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    2012 Shooting an Elephant In society‚ we are sometimes obligated to make a decision on the spot‚ without looking back or looking at any options around us. It may mean you have to make a decision for a big group or have to make a decision for yourself; in this case‚ both of those options weren’t good ones for the man who killed the elephant. In “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell narrates a story about his experience as a police officer in Burma that had killed an extreme elephant. Being

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    short stories Dead Men’s Path and Shooting an Elephant. In Dead Man’s Path‚ Chinua Achebe highlights the dangers in our own actions through the character Michael Obi. Obi is recently appointed headmaster of a school but his fatal decision to interfere with the village‚ strips his title away. Comparably‚ In Shooting an Elephant‚ George Orwell portrays the protagonist‚ the British officer‚ as being mentally weak. The character’s devastating action of killing the Elephant is fueled by his fear of appearing

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