between his own morals and the push and pull of society. In his story‚ “Shooting an Elephant”‚ Orwell serves as a sub divisional police officer‚ who is against the cruel British. However‚ he also despises the mockery he is given by the natives of Burma. He knows that killing the elephant is wrong‚ but cannot find the courage to stand up to his fear of being laughed at. “And suddenly I realized that I should have to shoot the elephant after all. The people expected it of me… as I stood there with
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attention of the reader so well is because Blair writes with an unmistakably strong exigency. It is this need of his to tell the world the truth about imperialism that enables him to write something so captivating. Blair found himself in Moulmein‚ Burma‚ as a police officer of the town. He found out what imperialism really is in its naked form‚ and the nature of it‚ from an incident in which he was practically pushed into shooting an elephant by the Burmese people. Although he did not want to shoot
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In the article " A Hanging " written by George Orwell‚ the main idea is that warden and jailer in Burma should give prisoners a good time and mood to die or even not to die but with other punishment. Before the hanging‚ prisoners are alive like us. Each time they avoid the puddles and screaming in front of the gallows‚ the author feels an unspeakable wrongness. The author wrote this story with a emotional tone. He tried to pursaude us in a tone and mood but not actual detial. " I saw the mystery
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being a leader. As a daughter of a political man‚ she was raised with awareness on how dirty politics could possibly be. In fact‚ she faced the cruelty of the world she lived when she lost his father at a very young age of 2. She escaped the wrath of Burma for a while yet‚ she was pulled once again into the battle field even if she had the choice to stay in England with her family. She chose to lead the people towards justice‚ rather than keeping mum faraway with her husband and children. What kind
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inability to decide. In‚ “ Shooting An Elephant”‚ choices are made for the pleasure of others. The theme in this short autobiographical essay deeply affects the entire story. Being unwanted had an enormous impact on Orwell. George Orwell lived in lower Burma where he was a sub- divisional police officer. Sadly‚ most of the towns inhabitants had a strong dislike for him because of the color of his skin‚ white. Orwell had to endure cruel insults and hurtful embarrassments. The harmless police officer was
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When did it happen? | May 2008 | | Where did it happen? Brief description of the storm. | Myanmar. Cyclone Nargis was a rare‚ eastward moving at low-latitude strong tropical cyclone that caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Burma | | Casualties | 150‚000 died. 1.5 million homeless. | | Economic | Slow down Burma’s economy. | | Environmental | Rice fields were flooded on the Irrawaddy Delta2008 and 2009 harvests of rice were destroyed | | Social | In many villages
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what he has witnessed and experienced‚ and decides to share his feelings with the rest of the establishment through his writings. We understand that the author’s purpose is to show how degraded he feels by the events that took place that morning in Burma. Throughout his essay the author shows‚ that the prisoners are treated like animals. We see this when the author is describing the cells‚ he states‚ “We were waiting outside the condemned cells‚ a row of sheds fronted with double bars‚ like small animal
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Orwell’s essay‚ “Shooting an Elephant” tells the story of a British policeman in British occupied India‚ who faces a situation where he must either follow his morals or pretend to be something else in order to please the public. Obviously living in Burma in the early nineteen hundreds‚ as an Englishman‚ was not easy. Furthermore‚ serving as a steward of the law in a place oppressed by the country you are from‚ certainly will make a job difficult. But‚ this is what Orwell’s character must do. I found
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Shwedagon Pagoda Yangon‚ formerly known as Rangoon‚ was the capital of Myanmar‚ is known for its colonial architecture‚ which although decaying‚ remains an almost unique example of a 19th-century British colonial capital. Friendly street vendors‚ traditionally dressed local people‚ attracting old Chevrolet buses and trishaws‚ all make a feel like a museum of Yangon downtown life. Shwedagon‚ the heart of Yangon‚ is the most profoundly honoured pagoda in the country and interesting history behind
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experience when his aunt took him to church to attend a church revival to be saved from sin but was not really saved whereas in “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell writes about his experience when he was posted as a police officer in the city of Burma and was pressured by the gathered crowd to kill an animal which was left loose. He ultimately decides to shoot the elephant. After reading both the stories I feel sympathetic towards both the authors but I feel more for Hughes as he lost his faith
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