Shootings

In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”, Orwell is presented with a task that causes him a great deal of stress as he battles with his internal conflict throughout the story. Orwell has mixed feelings after he kills the elephant. He feels wrong for killing the elephant because he feels that there could have been a more peaceful solution and killing it will bring more harm than good. He also feels that he killed it just because of his own pride. Although killing the elephant may seem wrong to

story Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell, Orwell describes three big problems, and messages that come with imperialism through a story about an elephant. Orwell sees these problems with imperialism. First he points out the hatred it brings upon innocent people. Secondly, he talks about peer pressure and its effects on people. Lastly, he talks about how cruel it was for the people being ruled and how selfish the people were that were ruling. Orwells first messages from the story Shooting an Elephant

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

The function of the first few paragraphs in “Shooting an Elephant” is to establish the setting and an insight of the narrator's position as a colonial British police officer. This short story is told in Moulmein, in Lower Burma. Narrator, George Orwell expresses to the reader that he was not well liked among his town. He is torn between hating the empire and being treated poorly by the Burmese. He states, “All I knew was that I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against

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

What is ethical and what is purely malevolent varies on the way our own conscious views them. In “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, an officer subsists within an imperialistic community in Burma, India, in which the native Burmese express tremendous aversions towards him. When he is given a duty to shoot an elephant that killed a Burmese man, this is his chance for triumph. He takes his rifle, a weak and powerless weapon, to use against a massive vigorous being. It is his goal to restore the

Shooting An analysis of George Orwell's “Shooting an Elephant” In George Orwell's story about shooting an elephant there is three main messages throughout the story that are told. The first message that comes through is prejudice and racism that happens in Burma. There is peer pressure that happens to Orwell that influences him to make his decision. At the end you are shown that authority and imperialism is this sort of way to prove power to others. In the story you are not told these messages

School Shootings When I think of school shootings my mind immediately goes back to the Columbine High school shooting. This was the first school shooting that I was actually old enough to remember and understand. I still remember having a moment of silence for all of those involved. The New world encyclopedia states “Columbine High School shooting was one of the deadliest mass shootings in United States history. On April 20, 1999, two teenagers killed 13 people and wounded more than 20 at Columbine

tell you the old witty saying that “life has its ups and downs”? If so, then you know that there are many obstacles to overcome throughout your life. Humanity is one barrier that you will overcome that plays an important role in today’s society. In “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, the essay explores going against Orwell’s own humanity of the effects of his role in the British army stationed in Burma. Eric Blair had gone through many impediments throughout his life time before becoming a professional

School Shootings “An average of 9,289 people shot dead by a gun, or 774 a month, 178 a week, 25 a day, or a little more than one per hour,” statistics from (Sandy Hook Effect Articles.) School shootings are one of the most tragic events, from Columbine in 1999 to Sandy Hook in 2012, to many more recent ones today. Colleges to high schools and even to elementary schools, there is always a threat and a possibility of having a shooting. While shootings are not predictable, schools should still