Evaluation of Shooting an Elephant

The story that my evaluation will be based on is Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College, which introduced him to England’s middle and upper classes. He was denied a scholarship, which led him to become a police officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack of …

…just stated that the elephant died after many shots or in any other basic way. Overall I did enjoy the message very much and felt that it fit into the section very well, but I did not care for the way the author displayed the message. Bibliography Abcarian, Richard and Marvin Klotz. Literature: Reading and Writing the Human Experience. Boston: Betford/St. Martin’s, 2000 Orwell, George. Shooting an Elephant. Boston: Betford/St. Martin’s, 1936 (2000): 680- 685.