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George Orwell Shooting An Elephant

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The essay that I read was Shooting an Elephant, by George Orwell. Orwell used several methods of development. He used methods such as description, example, cause and effect, and narration. This essay has tremendous examples of description. It is unreal how Orwell puts his words into images in your head. A wonderful example that he used for description is when he said "I should have about as much chance as a toad under a steamroller." He said that was his chance of surviving if the elephant had charged at him. Another great example was when he said "It was a very poor quarter, a labyrinth of squalid bamboo huts, thatched with palmleaf, winding all over a steep hillside. He uses the cause and effect method too. For example, if he weren't to shoot
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