The story Shooting an Elephant, which was written and experienced by George Orwell, deals with inner politics between two countries, England and Burma. The author says, "I was hated by large numbers of people-the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was a sub-divisional officer of the town...As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so...All this was perplexing and upsetting.'"' When said earlier of George dealing with inner politics, there"'"s only one main political emphasis that is being described; imperialism. But also, he too is referring to a subject that is attached to imperialism; favoritism. The people didn"'"t really favor George until something occurred that caused a disruptance in the town. This disruptance was an incident where he had to shoot an elephant for the safety of the public. In a scene, the author describes how the Burman natives stood around him with hope filled eyes. Due to the natives"'" gleeful expressions, it had led George to do an unthinkable act; murder a defenseless animal.
             However, the question is, why did he make up his mind to do this type of deed? First, it could be that he was forced to do so. George says in the story, '"'But at that moment I glanced round at the crowd that had followed me. It was an immense crowd...I looked at the sea of yellow faces above the garish clothes-faces all happy and excited over this bit of fun, all certain that the elephant was going to be shot... And suddenly I realized that I should have to shoot the elephant after all...I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind.'"' Orwell describes the facial expressions of the Burmans and how their expressions forced him emotionally rather than physically. It"'"s like he could care less about the situation and just walk away from it if the natives hadn"'"t showed up for this surprise fe
             ...