In this passage Orwell is a police officer who is hated by the villagers and he is being mistreated by them also. Even though he is a officer for the British, he’s on the villagers side;but they still mistreat him, they even trip him when he’s walking down the street. One day he gets a call about an elephant that’s destroying the city. The elephant is going through the “must” stage, and the elephant doesn't mean any harm, but the people have not been able to restrain the elephant. As Orwell is looking for the elephant, he finds a dead corpse that has been skinned alive by the elephant. The elephant had crushed the laborers body, so it was smashed in the mud. Orwell thought the elephant on the loose was a hoax, but when he seen that dead man's body he immediately asked for a gun big enough the shoot an elephant. He still couldn't understand the reason for the elephants rampage, but he was going to end all of that soon. …show more content…
This caused the crowd to follow Orwell because they were eager to see the beast shot. This made Orwell feel very uncomfortable because the once angry elephant has now calmed down and is eating some grass. At this point Orwell thinks that he doesn't have to shoot the elephant, he just watches the elephant to make sure he doesn't go on a rampage again. Because Orwell feel like he has morals as a police officer he decides to kill the harmless elephant. He felt like when he asked for the gun he basically was saying he was going to kill it. He felt that if he didn't kill the elephant he would be letting his people down. He wanted to not look like a fool, so he took matters into his own hands. He shot the elephant several times, but could not stay to watch the elephant die. He felt bad afterwards, because he heard the elephant suffered before he