Summary Of Shooting An Elephant By George Orwell

In the story, “Shooting an Elephant”, by George Orwell, is about a group of people in Moulmein finding the elephant that had been missing. The author uses diction, characterization, and imagery to make readers understand the tone and setting of this story. In the beginning of the story, Orwell uses word choices such as “hated” and “hideous” to describe the people in Moulmein (Orwell 1). The people in Moulmein were not likeable outside of Moulmein. Throughout the story, the author characterize the police officers in Moulmein as “ young and ill-educated” (Orwell 1). In Moulmein, the police officers were ignorance and not prepared for their role as being a police officers. An example of imagery that the author uses is when the police officers