30/10/11 ‘Shooting an Elephant’ Rebecca Bonner 2. Choose an essay which puts across a strong personal belief in a clear and convincing manor. George Orwell’s ‘Shooting an Elephant‚’ is an essay which takes place in imperial Burma where he is a police officer working on behalf of the British Empire. He is resented by the people who pressures him into shooting an elephant‚ where he describes himself as being a meaningless puppet in front of the Burmese crowd. Throughout this essay he also
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Burmese is a direct result of imperialism‚ showing both the fight and the ignorance of the captors and the captives. Orwell sympathizes with the situation that has developed in Burma‚ but he also finds the Burmese people to be “evil spirited little beasts” (282) who made his job unbearable. Being a police officer in Burma‚ and employed by the British Empire‚ it is a strenuous task for Orwell: a job he describes that he “hated it more bitterly than I can perhaps make clear” (281). He encounters hostility
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Leonard Morrow Christina Olson Writing Assignment 3 9 April 2013 Rhetorical Analysis: “Shooting an Elephant” In the essay entitled “Shooting an Elephant‚” George Orwell writes‚ “In Moulmein‚ in lower Burma‚ I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me” (Orwell‚ pg#). In this exert‚ not only does Orwell succeed in setting the mood and foreshadowing events to come‚ but he also introduces us to a protagonist
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forced to carry out orders by authority. George Orwell ’s "A Hanging" is a descriptive essay about capital punishment. The setting of this essay is placed in an early twentieth-century prison in Burma‚ a country ruled by the British Empire. Considering that George Orwell was an imperial police officer in Burma‚ it is highly probable that this essay is related to his own experience. The essay‚ presented through the eyes of the narrator‚ examines primitive human nature. Orwell develops his essay through
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the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948‚ in which his subjective‚ first-person narrative tells a story through its prose with a very strong political purpose. Orwell is called upon to shoot a hostile elephant whilst working as a police officer in Burma. Orwell demonstrates social pressure through the hierarchical structure of status‚ in this essentially extended metaphor whereby the elephant serves as a symbol of colonialism and‚ at the moment of its defeat‚ it is seen as an even more powerful symbol
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story “Shooting an Elephant” shows the impact of the British Empire on India during the colonial period. The main character‚ who is a British police officer‚ serving in Burma shows a big hatred to both sides. We follow him develop into shooting an Elephant. The protagonist of the story‚ an Anglo-Indian police officer in Burma‚ receives a call telling him there is an elephant‚ in burst‚ loose running directly through a village. When arriving to the scene‚ a man has been trampled to death by the
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Task 2.1: An analysis of ”Shooting an Elephant”‚ by George Orwell. This non-fiction essay is a report of George himself shooting an elephant. He is a sub-divisional police officer of the town Moulmein in lower Burma. It is here he experiences a kill of an elephant. And it is not just a kill‚ he kills it with a rifle in front of about two thousands Indians. The elephant had gone savage and rampaged homes and killed men. Orwell reports an Indian man who was grounded into the mud by the elephant with
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alphabet ’Marmaza’ or ’Marimacha’ originates from the ’ancient sub-continental Brahmin alphabet that had left-to-right writing style. It is known from a book on the ancient history of Burma‚ entitled‚ Mraina Samoing Rajwong that the people of Krishna and Godabar’ areas of south India migrated to several areas of southeast Burma in the sixth century. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Marma tongue is a dialect descended from the Burmese language. It is because a language is always like a flowing
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Name: Win Naing Lin Class: ESL 141 critical reading I would like to talk my photos that are very popular places in my country. I am from Myanmar (Burma) which is situated in Southeast Asia‚ next to Thailand between china and India. 1. Yangon‚ formerly‚ known as Rangoon‚ is the capital city of Myanmar. It is also called The Golden Land. It is famous for colonial architecture‚ friendly street vendors‚ and traditionally dressed local people. Shwedagon‚ the heart of Yangon‚ is the most honoured
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