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The one of story about shooting an elephant, what happened in it has police officer and the story has In this powerful essay, George Orwell uses the symbol of when he was forced to shoot an elephant to describe the foolhardiness and inherent weakness of the colonial endeavour. He describes how the elephant did not need to be shot and how he really didn't want to shoot it. However, when he finally reaches the elephant, the crowd that is getting bigger with every moment pressurises him into…

Values are something all people posses, some people live by them, others just make them up on the fly. Values are something all people learn to appreciate. What does one do with those values when a conflict arises? Most people like to think they follow them at all times, even if it is in a stressful situation, but that is not always the case. In “Shooting An Elephant” and “Singing Silence” both characters have values that are dealt with in different ways more so than similar. In both stories…

Kincaid: Respond to the ideas in “Exploratory Writing,” p. 503 Christopher Columbus was the one who "discover of the island", and Annie knew that island was her home. I think she knows really clearly that she came from the slaves: "but we, the descendants of the slaves,' because her ancestors had gone from Africa. Of course Annie has her own view about Christopher, and I absolutely understand why does she wrote: "The Great Man Can No Longer Just Get Up and Go." I feel bad about the teaching…

In Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”, the narrator has to deal with an elephant that killed a man in a market in Burma. He also has to uphold his British culture while showing the locals that the British are powerful. In Lessing’s “No Witchcraft for Sale”, the main character has to deal with two conflicting cultures, the Farquar’s, and his African roots. “When a nimble Burman man tripped me up on the football field and the referee (another Burman) looked the other way, the crowd yelled with…

To Kill A White Elephant Many people at times don’t think before they act or speak. They don’t make the choice to reevaluate their thoughts and actions. Some don’t care about other views and opinions and when it comes to making rational and important decisions. Some do take the time to think about making their important decision especially when it comes to a white elephant. In “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway presents a story of a girl named Jig, who has to make a decision at a…

George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell’s use of narration in his piece “Shooting an Elephant” works really well to depict the events that take place in the story, by allowing us to hear all of his thoughts and reasons to his actions, as his experiences as sub-divisional officer take place. Orwell allows us to fully understand the situation between Burma and British empire in a personal level by narrating daily events that helps us readers understand how life was, when this life…

George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” and “A Hanging” are two literary works describing a man’s experiences in the country of Burma (now known as Myanmar) under British rule. Both works reflect on a man’s first-hand experiences and address key moral issues. They also explore life under British imperial rule. While Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” and “A Hanging” have much in common, they are also quite different. “Shooting an Elephant” and “A Hanging” have quite a lot in common. For starters,…

Peer pressure occurs when a person in order to be liked or in order to fit in the group performs a task that when kept alone would not perform. And on not doing the task would be subject the person to think of what the other party might think of him/her. The time period in which Orwell had to decide whether to kill the elephant or let it live was a very crucial stage. The second paragraph of the essay he states that he had no intention to shoot the elephant only to simply scare it away “I had no…

What is it like to be peer pressured? The three messages from elephant Have you ever been peer pressured into something? Have you ever peer pressured someone into something? Do you ever feel like you need to do something to impress the people around you? Do you ever want to feel cool? Can you feel cool doing something that felt wrong to you? In the story Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell, George was peer pressured into shooting, an elephant for the Burmese. There could have been…

In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant,” the main character faces an internal struggle over right or wrong. Everyone, at some point or another, thinks “why am I doing this?” or “is this the correct decision?” Because we ask these questions of ourselves, this does not mean we necessarily have full control as interpreted by the French philosopher Louis Althusser. Ideological State Apparatuses such as law, religion, and politics are rife in "Shooting an Elephant" and George Orwell realizes that…