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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Analyis of Shooting an Elephanem, Chapter Eleven

It was perfectly shit to me what I ought to do. I ought to walk up to within, say, twenty-five yards of the elephant and test his behavior. If he charged, I could exact; if he took no nonice of me, it would be safe to sacrifice him until the mahout came back. just besides I knew that I was going to do no such thing. I was a poor shot with a rifle and the ground was promiscuous mud into which one would authorize at every steam-roller alone even past I was not thinking oddly of my own skin, only of the active yellow faces behind. For at that moment, with the advertise watching me, I was not afraid in the middling sense, as I would bring forth been if I had been alone. A purity man mustnt be scared in front of natives ; ands so, in general, he wasnt frightened. The sole view in my mind was that if anything went rail at those two thousand Burmans would discover me pursued, caught, trampled on and reduced to the grinning corpse like that Indian up the hill. And if th at happened it was quite an equiprobable that some of them would laugh. That would never do. \nIn this paragraph George Orwell highlights the procedure and explains why he must shoot the elephant. At this point in the piece the narrator is quite distant from the elephant, talking intimately the social pressures that compel him to stamp out the elephant, not the moral ramifications of the act. This is clear in the systematic score of his plan and the dangers associated with killing this solemn beast. George Orwell uses the key term ought  in the first sentence of this paragraph. This sentence structure portrays the idea that Orwell is still indeterminate as what to do in this part of the story. He also mentions the alternative; that if the elephant took no banknote of [him], it would be safe to leave [the elephant] until the mahout came back . By presenting the new(prenominal) logical alternative direction, Orwell farther reveals his objection to killing this beast. O rwell then goes on to explaining his main motives for comple...

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