“Shoot
an Elephant” by George Orwell
To “Shoot an Elephant” is about the writer when he was a
sub-divisional police officer. He’s an Anlgo-Englishman stationed in Moulmein Lower Burma . He is
hated by the small town that has been taken by imperialism. He very much dislikes people having a bad
opinion of him.
One day
the sub-inspector calls him to tell him there is a ravaging elephant in the
bazaar, destroying the town. He sets with a small gun that couldn’t kill an
elephant. Meeting up with the sub-inspector and constables, they question the
people about where the elephant went. No one gives them an answer of any
legitimacy. He thinks it’s a joke until
he hears a lady telling children to get away from something. The police officer
sees an Indian lying down in the mud. He is recently dead and has with an
elephant’s foot print on his back. After
this, the writer sends for an elephant rifle.
Burmans come and tell him that the elephant is in the paddy fields, so
he starts off down to the fields with the whole town following him. They are excited about him killing the
elephant, with only the gun to defend himself. When he gets to the elephant, he
sees that it is hurting nothing, just tearing up grass. He thinks he should not
kill the animal because he feels like he is like an expensive machine.
The
native crowd at this moment liked him with the gun in his hands and it was
everything to impress them. This is why he decides to shoot the elephant. It
takes several shots and a long time for the elephant to die. Some were upset and some were pleased, but he
decided that now he wouldn’t look so stupid and now people would think better
of him.
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