The Elephant and Crowd Effect Shooting an Elephant is a short story written by George Orwell in 1936. Regardless of my persuasive point that George Orwell was just writing a story about an elephant‚ “Shooting an Elephant” is actually a central text in modern British literature and has generated perhaps more criticism than any other comparable short story. The story is concerning an English colonial officer residing in Burma and his obligation to shoot a rogue elephant. In “Shooting an Elephant
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how the authors structure their work‚ but finding the similarities and differences within a piece of writing allows us to recognize important ideas that were not obvious and clear on the surface. “The Damned Human Race” by Mark Twain‚ and “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell‚ allow the readers to recognize the many characteristics of human nature. An analysis of the similarities and differences between the two essays shows the reader that while they both address the concept of humans seeking revenge
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Shooting an Elephant for No Good Reason George Orwell spent some time as a police officer in Burma where he was actively hated. While doing this job he despised‚ he was put in a position where he felt it was necessary to shoot an elephant on the loose. George Orwell was not justified in shooting the elephant because the elephant was not charging at him‚ the animal was worth less dead than alive‚ and the people he was trying to impress had no love for him. When Orwell describes observing the elephant
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SOAPStone Shooting An Elephant Speaker : George Orwell‚ known for his writing “Animal Farm”. He is also known journalist for his thoughts on politics. Occasion : Shooting of the elephant‚ Orwell was forced to shoot the animal because that was of him to do. Audience : Are the people who are fans of George Orwell’s work‚ But also people who stand up for animal rights because the story is about “Shooting An Elephant ’’. Purpose : The purpose of “Shooting An Elephant ’’ is Orwell didn’t
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Two pieces of literature Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell and The Guest by Albert Camus both talks about how people’s values can come into conflict as they are stuck between the choices and how based on the choice that they make at that moment in life it will impact them for the the rest of their lives. There is times when we come across a situation which put us in a difficult position to choose what to do as we are stuck between two values to choose from. To understand better how people’s values
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“forced” to kill an elephant when he worked as a European police officer in Moulmein. The local people always expressed strong anti-European feeling to Orwell so he was upset and frustrated. One day there was an elephant escaping from the chain. It made a mess and even killed one person. When Orwell found the elephant‚ it was eating in the paddy fields‚ no longer being harmful to human. However‚ since more than two thousand of people were watching Orwell‚ he decided to kill the elephant. Orwell said that
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drawn on milk cartons. For George Orwell’s story‚ he tells of his time as a police officer in the British regime of Burma. He was the one who was forced to deal with the situation of the elephant. The elephant was chained up‚ which was nonchalantly mentioned‚ because this was a normal thing to do to an elephant. This sort of things seemed to happen often because when they break free‚ their attacks are described as a “must”; which I interpret as revenge against their human captors. When he recounted
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The main idea of the story “Shooting an Elephant" by Orwell is the effect of the oppressor is not only on the oppressed‚ but himself. There are several evidences found in the text to support the main idea. First‚ the author mentioned about the treatment of a European woman gets when she went to bazaars alone. This explained the freedom of security had been taken away. Since European had colonized Burma at that time‚ there was growing hatred toward European. Freedom to act also been seize when the
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Evils of Imperialism In life people are often faced with making difficult decisions that are influenced by other people’s opinions. In George Orwell’s essay “Shooting An Elephant”‚ he declares‚ “imperialism was an evil thing”(2). Imperialism forces people to go against their better judgment for the sake of being ridiculed. In Orwell’s thesis he states‚ “ I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow‚ posing dummy
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Brief Study of George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant Based on physics science‚ everything which moves in this world definitely needs time to travel from one place to another. The time is affected by distance‚ the amount of space between two things‚ which will determine whether the travel from one place to another will take a long time or a short one. The connection between time and distance will create velocity‚ the speed which is generated by something when it is moving through a distance in
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