Where is the Change? An essay inspired by Shooting an Elephant
I would like to thank George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant for providing inspiration for the essay you are about to read, and for teaching students around the world an important aspect of the human condition.
I sat on the edge of the river bank, watching the ripples float past. As I looked out into the water it was then that I saw it, floating past with the grace of a swan. The only evidence of its path being the trail of disturbance through the crystalline water. It's shiny coating taunted me from where I sat, at one time I might have been appalled at the sight of the red and yellow packaging glaring at me, however with time and experience I have become accustomed to these colours. They contrasted against the neutral green of the surroundings and made me despise human-kind for a brief moment. How could we as a whole, become so accustomed to this plague changing our world, …show more content…
At the time I knew the idea without the name. Watching the movie I was moved to tears, seeing all the animals and hearing the narrator tell me that by 2050 we would all be dead if climate change continued without prevention. At this moment I had a crisis at the age of ten. It was the first time that I truly understood mortality and what actually happened to my fish when we had to send them to the ocean so they could be with their families. I remember running home to my mom and crying out as I flung myself into her arms “I don’t want to die!”. Feelings like this are normal and my parents had tried to explain what death was before, but it was not until then that I truly realized what was to come. This was also the year I realized that animals did not die of old age before we ate it, and converted to vegetarianism. You can tell from these situations that I cared about the environment more than the average
I would like to thank George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant for providing inspiration for the essay you are about to read, and for teaching students around the world an important aspect of the human condition.
I sat on the edge of the river bank, watching the ripples float past. As I looked out into the water it was then that I saw it, floating past with the grace of a swan. The only evidence of its path being the trail of disturbance through the crystalline water. It's shiny coating taunted me from where I sat, at one time I might have been appalled at the sight of the red and yellow packaging glaring at me, however with time and experience I have become accustomed to these colours. They contrasted against the neutral green of the surroundings and made me despise human-kind for a brief moment. How could we as a whole, become so accustomed to this plague changing our world, …show more content…
At the time I knew the idea without the name. Watching the movie I was moved to tears, seeing all the animals and hearing the narrator tell me that by 2050 we would all be dead if climate change continued without prevention. At this moment I had a crisis at the age of ten. It was the first time that I truly understood mortality and what actually happened to my fish when we had to send them to the ocean so they could be with their families. I remember running home to my mom and crying out as I flung myself into her arms “I don’t want to die!”. Feelings like this are normal and my parents had tried to explain what death was before, but it was not until then that I truly realized what was to come. This was also the year I realized that animals did not die of old age before we ate it, and converted to vegetarianism. You can tell from these situations that I cared about the environment more than the average