George Orwell Narrative

In the story, George Orwell narrates the acts of inhumanity he experienced in Burma. To achieve the intent of presenting the inner conflict posed to an imperial police officer during the time, the author employs the use of autobiographical narrative to capture the reader’s attention. To ascertain the British colonial rule over the Burmese civilians and their resources, the author contends that no Burmese civilian was allowed during his time of service to own a gun. From the narrative, it is apparently true to say that the author was not in any way comfortable with his job, this is well evident when the author articulates that “all I knew was that I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make my job impossible”. (Orwell 2844). Though the author was filled with rage over the unfair colonialism in Burma, he had to repress his anger essentially because acting alone in facing the issue would turn against him. It is evident from the narrative that the author experienced conflict …show more content…
The incident that is of huge concern to the author is the ordeal that unfolded when an elephant broke loose following its aggressive sexual behavior. Despite the fact that Orwell was to use his “old 44 Winchester and much too small to kill an elephant” (Orwell 2845) he had no option but accomplish his duty as a police, he had to maintain order. Dealing with the elephant was quite a challenging task but then again Orwell had no option but complete the task as sanctioned. Being in this situation, Orwell developed a strategy that would secure him from it. He decided to shoot the elephant if in case it came to him, on the other hand if the tame elephant remain calm during the process he would convince the crowd behind him that the tame elephant is already calm securing his soul from the rage of the