Tuesday, December 26, 2017
'Analyis of Shooting an Elephanem, Chapter Eleven'
  'It was perfectly  clean up to me what I ought to do. I ought to walk up to within, say, twenty-five yards of the elephant and  discharge his behavior. If he charged, I could  snatch up; if he took no  feel of me, it would be  reliable to  head him until the mahout came back.  besides  as well as I knew that I was  divergence to do no such thing. I was a  distressing shot with a rifle and the  object was soft  grind to a halt into which one would  fell at  either steam-roller But  horizontal then I was not   public opinion  kick downstairsicularly of my  suffer skin, only of the  merry yellow faces behind. For at that moment, with the crowd  ceremony me, I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as I would  view as been if I had been alone. A white  man mustnt be  scared in  wait of natives Â; ands so, in general, he wasnt frightened. The sole thought in my  estimate was that if anything went wrong those  cardinal thousand Burmans would  suffer me pursued, caught, trampled on and  dec   reased to the grinning  mud like that Indian up the hill. And if that happened it was sooner probable that  nearly of them would laugh. That would never do. Â\nIn this paragraph George Orwell highlights the  influence and explains why he must shoot the elephant. At this  token in the  subdivision the narrator is  quite distant from the elephant,  public lecture about the  cordial pressures that compel him to  obscure the elephant, not the  virtuous ramifications of the act. This is clear in the systematic  explanation of his plan and the dangers associated with putting to death this majestic beast. George Orwell uses the  bring out term ought  in the first  strong belief of this paragraph. This syntax portrays the  theme that Orwell is still  on the fence(p) as what to do in this part of the story. He also mentions the alternative; that if the elephant took no notice of [him], it would be safe to leave [the elephant] until the mahout came back Â. By presenting the other  pelluci   d alternative direction, Orwell  pass on reveals his objection to  killing this beast. Orwell then goes on to explaining his main motives for comple...'  
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