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George Orwell Shooting An Elephant Analysis

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K.Kapler
8-26-17
English 1A
Lourie,Iven

The story, “Shooting an Elephant”, by George Orwell, states an elephant that ‘got loose’ (134,135) and was ‘running wildly’ (135,136) in the streets of “Moulmein’ (133). And since Orwell was part of a police force,which the people of Burma didn’t like. Nor liked him because he was a different color from how the people of Burma looked. Yet he was called out from his normal duties to ‘deal with the wild elephant’ (135,136).

When he arrived, to ‘Moulmein” (133), which was a ‘lower Burma’ (133) city, his job was to find the elephant and deal with the issue it was causing to stress out the people of Burma. The first thing is he didn’t see the elephant, instead he saw what the elephant had done. It killed
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