Shooting an Elephant

Why a British Officer Murdered an Elephant? This summary is about the journey of a police officer in Burma. Its based on the short story Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell. It’s all about just how this police officer killed the elephant and how he arrived at his decision. This story it about roles, feelings, morality and inconsistency of a man and his power. One of the most important aspects of this story is how this young man felt about his job. At the beginning, he makes it very clear that…

comes to getting a rifle shooting accurately, and a customer’s expectations. it is very important to keep in mind what you must work with… He mentioned that while some pump and lever guns are capable of achieving surprising groups they should generally be expected to produce 2-4” groups. He went on to say that bolt guns and single shot rifles are where you’ll generally find nice tight groups.…

opinions on imperialism in short stories and poems. In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” he portrays imperialism throughout the passage. Orwell (1936) believes the story is a comparison for British Imperialism. When the white man gives in to imperialism he is not only giving in to the government but also losing his own freedom. The elephant represents the British. The character has a lot of conflict with shooting the elephant because it was a question to do the right thing or stand by his…

they do not want that to spread. When Orwell writes about the incident of the elephant getting loose and how it was tame at first, he is describing how imperialism always seems to be docile and domesticated initially, but it is only a matter of time before it does damage. The elephant destroyed homes but the people seemed to look on as if nothing was happening and had a sense of what could they do about it. The elephant stomped an Indian man into the ground and ripped his skin off his body.…

Literature, Art, and Music reveal values about a century. Many of these truths dispute what is considered normal. The 20th century was a time of inequality for women, along with many wars. Writer George Orwell focuses on the issues of imperialism whilst author Margaret Atwood concentrates on the concerns of gender equality and roles. In addition, artists and writers such as Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf, and Igor Stravinsky took their pieces of work and somehow went against what the 20th…

the buttons attached to their suits. The politician on the left is wearing a button with an image of a donkey on it, which I know is the symbol that stands for Democrats. The politician on the right, however, is wearing a button with an image of an elephant on it,…

therefore they are moving out of the recovery zone to do this. These things puts them at greater risk of killing people’s livestock that they worked hard to raise. If the bears kill the livestock, the farmers and ranchers would have to resort to shooting them. Bears will go through people’s trash and if little kids are in the area someone could get attacked and then they would have to population control. Bears can easy break into houses and go through people’s cabinets. People say that the bears…

George Orwell’s essay “How to Shoot an Elephant” can be seen as a commentary and critique about imperialism in which the elephant is a metaphor for the colonized people and the British police officer is the colonizer in colonial Burma. Orwell’s essay helped readers to see that imperialism and empires are not clear cut and black and white as it seems to be, there are shades of grey, muddled, and a middleman between the two sides of the colonized and the colonizer. Orwell critiques about empire…

paradox of obedience to a powerless influence presents itself in two great works of literature: “Shooting an Elephant” and “Civil Disobedience”. Take the pieces’ two bold writers, George Orwell and Thoreau himself, respectively. Forces compel both men to perform what each considers an objectionable act: for Thoreau, to pay a tax supporting the aggressive Mexican- American war; for Orwell, shooting an elephant wandering through the Burmese town that Orwell polices. However, the influential…

John Hurt, The Elephant Man, John Hurt passed away , at 77 after a fight against pancreatic cancer The man in “The Elephant Man”, the addict Max in “Midnight Express”, the despicable Caligula in “I, Claudius”, the astronaut Kane in “Alien” and Garrick Olivander in “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” died with his boots on, in his home in Norfolk, with his recent paper as father Richard McSorley in “Jackie”, with two unreleased movies and an unfinished project about the life and…