Evaluation of Shooting an Elephant
The story that my evaluation will be based on is Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College, which introduced him to England's middle and upper classes. He was denied a scholarship, which led him to become a police officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack of respect for the justice of British Imperialism in Burma and India. He was now determined to become a writer, so at the brink of poverty he began to pay close attention to social outcasts and laborers. This led him to write Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) during the Spanish Civil War. He embodied his hate for totalitarian system in his book Animal Farm (1945). George Orwell fell to the disease of tuberculosis at forty-seven, but not before he released many works. He wrote six novels, three documentary works, over seven hundred reviews and newspaper articles, and a volume of essays (1149).This particular story was very interesting and found it to hold a lot of truth. Shooting an Elephant is about an English man that was a police officer in Burman, who was hated for his race and felt it almost impo
He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib. The main character grabbed his 44 rifle and set out to find the elephant. George Orwell then goes on to describe in great detail the horrible death that the elephant experienced. His point would not have been taken so seriously if he just stated that the elephant died after many shots or in any other basic way. He also felt bad for the mahout, but the look on the faces and eyes were stronger than the feeling of guilt inside of him. Overall I did enjoy the message very much and felt that it fit into the section very well, but I did not care for the way the author displayed the message. The message was that even though peers may expect something of them it is not always the right thing to do. It is also clear that he gave into the pressure of the towns people when he states in the last line that " I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool" (685). The message was very clear in that there was a common problem between people in general and certain races in the mid-thirties. When the elephant got loose the first person the sub-inspector at the opposite end of the town called was the main character, who was to be nameless throughout the entire story. The purpose of the gun was not to kill the elephant but to just scare it with the noise.
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