Messages in Short Stories (Three Messages from‚ “Shooting an Elephant” and “No Witchcraft for Sale”) George Orwell was born in India and was extremely familiar with elephants. He joined the police force in 1923 and resigned only after five years. His story‚ “Shooting an Elephant”‚ is his most famous writings and is based on one of his experiences during his career as a policeman. On the other hand‚ Doris Lessing‚ wrote the short story‚ “No Witchcraft for Sale.” Lessing wanted to influence
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George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant’’ first appeared in 1936. The British public already knew Orwell as the socially conscious author of Down and Out in London and Paris (1933)‚ a nonfiction study of poverty‚ homelessness‚ unemployment‚ and subsistence living on poorly-paying 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
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1 “The Allegory of the Cave” and “Shooting an Elephant” seems like two completely different stories. Both of them have their own ways of showing enlightenment and ways of perceiving realities. After reading both of these tales multiple times‚ I’ve drawn some conclusions on the different ways of enlightenment that are described throughout each story. In “Shooting an Elephant‚” Policeman Eric Blair is asked to kill the elephant that was ravaging the village. Many times he would describe how he
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An Elephant-Sized Dilemma Everyone‚ of all ages and time periods‚ faces a moral dilemma. This may be about a smaller problem or matters of life and death that have a far more wide-ranging impact‚ such as imperialism. In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant‚” an unnamed narrator‚ despite his initial reluctance‚ succumbs to collective pressures to shoot a marauding elephant in Lower Burma. Orwell comments on the dangers of collective pressure and the horrors of imperialism in order to explore the
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of types of dwellings‚ that’s why everyone can choose a house he or she likes. For instance some people prefer semi-detached houses or duplexes (as the Americans call them). I think that such houses attract them because they are less expensive than mansions or bungalows‚ for example. You also have neighbours you can always turn to if you need something‚ but at the same time your neighbours can disturb you while repairing their part of the house or when they listen to music too loudly. But in general
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Abandon House 1. Dust lay over every surface like dirty snow‚ pristine dust layer‚ not a foot print anywhere‚ dust bunnies the size of bowling balls tumbled across the floor boards toward unseen skittles‚ free papers piled up to the letter box and cascaded all the way to the foot of the rough wooden stairs‚ old tea cups lay on a coffee table thickly encrusted with dried up mould‚ dust covered mirrors‚ smell of mildew‚ stale air‚ air thick with dust‚ shafts of light bursting through gaps in the boarded
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roof of their house. One day I want to have a home that makes me feel well and where I can be safe and happy. The purpose of this essay is to discuss and fine structural decisions I made about designing my dream house. The house of my dream has to be huge‚ spacious‚ which would reflect my personality toward innovations and new modern technological advances. . I would like my house count as much as possible with green materials that serve to protect the environment I want my house to be located
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The character that I identify with the most is Orwell in “Shooting an Elephant” because of his struggle to do what is morally right when society wants him to be or do something different. I think I sometimes struggle to do what is morally right when an entire world pushes me to conform. For example‚ what if I know a friend has cheated on a test but I cannot say anything to the teacher because after all he or she is my friend. Or‚ when a coworker gets reprimanded by our boss for something I did and
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NAME: Liban Hussein Film Review: Life as a House George Monroe is a lonely and sad man. Divorced for ten years‚ he lives alone on the Southern California coast with his pet dog in the same run down shack he has lived in for twenty-five years‚ the shack which his father passed down to him. In the intervening years‚ ostentatious houses have sprung up around him. He’s been at the same architectural firm for twenty years in a job he hates‚ which primarily consists of building scale models. On the
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In Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants‚” Jig undergoes a transformation enabling her to realize and declare her own feelings. At the story’s beginning Jig is passive‚ unaware of her own feelings‚ and in the habit of looking to the American direction. She soon comes to realize her own desires and struggles to assert herself for the first time. The story is structured around the two sides of the valley‚ the division symbolizing the opposition between the American’s values and Jig’s. “The two
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