Elephant

The short story Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell is about Orwell’s experience with peer pressure as a sub-divisional police officer in Moulmein, Lower Burma. This experience occurred during the 1930s when the Burmese had a very strong anti-European feeling because they did not want people who are not natives controlling their own country`s domestic and international affairs. It commenced when the sub-inspector at a police station asked him to control an elephant who wrecked the bazaar, livestock

Asian Elephant The scientific name for the asian elephant is Elephas Maximus. The length of an Asian elephant is up to 5.5-6.5m, of an adult this includes trunk, head and the body. Asian elephants can live up to 60 years in the wild bit up to 48 years in captivity. Elephants are herbivores this means they only eat plants and vegetables. They spend sixteen

The story, “Shooting an Elephant”, is very descriptive and intriguing. George Orwell, the author, uses small words throughout this story that get the audience’s attention. He even has different lines that readers remember when the title is spoken of. Because he is so thorough in the plot taking place, the audience has an opportunity to feel as if they were there and saw everything that has happened. George Orwell’s stylistic choices related to pace, tone, and character development enable him to be

trunks: scientific summary “In the present study, we aimed to better our under- standing of how elephants use their sensory abilities in a food- finding task. First, we sought to determine whether elephants are able to locate food in a two-way object choice task by either audition or olfaction. If significant results were obtained in either domain, the second aim of our study was to investigate whether elephants can use these senses to make choices by exclusion.” (Plotnik, et. al.) Main point: curiosity

received a call. It was the other side of the town calling the station to inform the police that an elephant was on the loose. He quite honestly did not know what to do, but he was curious what was happening so off he went. He got on a pony and grabbed a gun that was obviously incapable of taking down the elephant. While on his way to the elephant scene, he heard about the destruction the elephant caused: destroying a bamboo hut, killing a cow and destroying a van. As he kept heading in that

In the piece “Elephant” the author uses irony in order to showcase the true essence of social norms. It is stated, “For at that moment, with the crowd watching me, I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as I would have been if I had been alone.” This dialogue reveals that the people are causing the main character to behave differently. This implies that they ironically have power over the main character, despite the fact he is a law enforcer. Later in the piece, the main character is aware that

“Shooting an Elephant” Orwell was born in 1903 during the British imperial time and the Orwell family was not a wealthy family. Readers can easily see that his younger days were less satisfying due to the harsh time of the British imperial time. Although his family was not wealthy, he found his gift for writing at an early age of five or six years old. He published his first book called, “Awake Young Men Of England” at the age of eleven. He continued his writing career in his adult years and succeeded

talking about the trial of how elephants work together. Each text, and the video, the scientists are testing to see how elephants can work together and to see how social they are, testing whether or not they know when they need help from and peer. By doing so, viewers can see how intelligent elephants are and see how they work together to get things done. First of all, in the video, viewers can see how the elephants worked together to get the bowls of corn. Each elephant grabbed the ends of the rope

Shooting an elephant written by George Orwell brings to light the evil of imperialism. Being a police officer in the lower Burma, Orwell hated his job. The reason was because the people in Burma ridiculed, insulted and laughed at him whenever they felt safe to do so. Orwell opposed imperialism, and thus was able to feel the hatred of the people of Burma, but still resented them. The story starts with Orwell receiving a phone call about a tame elephant destroying bazaar. He carried with him an old

essay, “Shooting an Elephant”, the author George Orwell has worked extremely hard to express and relate the meaning of the symbols to the story. The protagonist character George Orwell is the British imperial police officer in Burma and is hated by Burmese people because he is a part of the British Empire, the oppressor of the Burma. Orwell does show sympathy over native people of Burma but he cannot do anything to change the minds of the British Empire. After finding an elephant that was out of control