visiting places of religious importance.\ I ’ve been visited even a few other country ‚the most beauty country in the world is my own country ’Myanmar’ for me.Myanmar is a country in Southeast Asia‚formely known as Burma.Previously an independence ‚Burma was annexed by the British Empire into the colony of India in 1886 but it was returned to the British control until independence in 1948.Myanmar is situated in Southeast Asia‚is bordered on the north and northeast by China ‚on the east and southeast
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menial jobs‚ and Burmese Days (1934)‚ a novel of British colonialism. Shooting an Elephant’’ functions as an addendum to Burmese Days. The story and novel share the same setting‚ and draw on Orwell’s experience as a colonial official in India and Burma‚ two regions of the British Empire‚ in the middle of the century between the two world wars. The story (which some critics consider an essay) concerns a colonial officer’s obligation to shoot a rogue elephant. The narrator
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"Shooting an Elephant‚" by George Orwell is a first person view on living and working as a European police officer in Moulmein‚ Lower Burma. There was a bit of tension between the locals and the foreign law enforcement since the British had taken over the country‚ so Orwell was not thought fondly of. The climax of this essay was when a otherwise tame elephant starts rampaging because is had gone into "must" a term used on page 118 that means in heat. The owner loses track of the animal in the
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SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT (JOURNAL) This story begins in Moulmain‚ in lower Burma. The author speaks about his experiences while he was working as a police officer. In this time‚ Orwell was a young inexperienced soldier. He was in that place to protect the Queen’s interests. He had to do unethical things that made conflicts himself. When he mentions that he killed an elephant I feel his pangs of conscience. The elephant destroyed a village before it died. The villagers were furious about all the mess
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Human Rights Watch. (2012). The Government Could Have Stopped This: Sectarian Violence and Ensuing Abuses in Burma’s Arakan State Human Rights Watch. (2013). All You Can Do is Pray: Crimes against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma Arakan State Inquiry Commission‚ Union of Myanmar. (2013‚ July‚ 8). Final Report of Inquiry Commission on Sectarian Violence in Rakhine State Rubeinstein‚ R.‚ E. (2003). Sources. In Cheldelin‚ S.‚ Druckman‚ D.‚ & Fast‚ L. (Eds.)‚ Conflict: from analysis
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wrong in what he did. As a result‚ he finds himself doing whatever he must do‚ which in this case is to kill the elephant‚ to “avoid looking a fool”(89). (Rule#4)Orwell symbolizes himself as the British imperialists‚ who were the ruling authority in Burma‚ and the Burmese people as the elephant. Shooting the elephant is a symbolic of the English government ’s relationship with the Burmese people. By narrating the experience of killing an elephant‚ George Orwell presents a good model of narration.
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through words”. I will show you why this is. Aung Sang Suu Kyi uses a substantial amount of pathos in her speech. When she combines pathos‚ antithesis and a lack of fear‚ she forms a speech that reaches out to people not only in her own country of Burma but also the whole UK Government and its allied nations. This is evident through her quote‚ “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to
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1. Orwell shoots the elephant because the two thousand native people standing behind him expect him to. They want revenge for the man it killed‚ the meat the carcass will provide‚ and the entertainment of watching the shooting. “The people expected it of me and I had got to do it” he writes. There is a suggestion that if he decided not to shoot the elephant‚ both he and the empire would suffer a loss of prestige‚ but the main concern in Orwell’s mind is the “long struggle not to be laughed at”. He
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the text do you see examples of Orwell’s attitude towards the native people? - Orwell feels hated by the Indian people‚ but he still wants to impress them by shooting the elephant. 4. Find examples of Orwell’s attitude towards his own position in Burma. 5. In the second paragraph‚ what is suggested by the qualifiers “and secretly‚ of course” and “if you can catch him off duty”? 6. Note Orwell’s language in paragraph 5. What are the rhetorical effects of “merely ravaging their homes” and “as it
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provincial bigotry‚ and eventually world war. Yet Orwell ’s deep acculturation in traditional middle-class British mores and patriotic sentiments clashed with his sensitivity to class and racial bias. In particular Orwell ’s travel essays on Marrakech and Burma (now Myanmar) are ambiguous but important examples of how literature that seeks sympathy with or advocacy for other cultures and groups also demonstrates how the identities of writers‚ their subjects‚ and those who read their work are constructed by
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