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Why Does Orwell Want To Kill The Elephant

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Throughout the English course so far we read a short story both about their own values in the first place. Orwell was challenged to save the elephant by waiting on it's owner or gain respect of the natives. As well as Daru was faced to take an Arab to jail or disobey the order from the french policeman. Furthermore all the stories we read were seeing how different people values were and how different they make choices. It is clear to see orwell’s conflict when he has to choose between caring for the elephant or gaining the respect of the Burmans. Orwell does care about the elephants life because he said “it seems to me it would be murder to shoot him”(Orwell, 4). Orwell all he wanted was just to fit in with the Burmans. Orwell “spend his life trying to impress the natives”(4). Afterwords Orwell was glad that the coolie had been killed by the elephant so he legally had the right to shoot the elephant. In conclusion Orwell never wanted to kill the elephant but he just wanted to get accepted into their native group. Toward the ending Orwell says “I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that i had done it solely to avoid looking a fool”(6). But in the end he killed the elephant so he can gain respect otherwise. …show more content…

Balducci gave Daru an order to take the Arab to jail but “Daru is hesitated, did not wanted to hurt the old corsican”(Camus, 4) but he is loyal to the french. Daru does not know whether the Arab deserves to be punish or let go. Daru leaves the man and tells him you can go back or go on ahead to the jail. Daru certainty believes that turing in the Arab was wrong, yet he fails to simply release the prisoner. When he was believing “the Arab was still there on the edge of the hill his arms hanging now, and he was looking at the schoolmaster”(13). Yet he fails to make his decision, and as a result he is left in complete moral solitude and a death sentence in

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