Shooting an Elephant

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   You can see this story as an allegory to the colonial oppression practiced in places like Burma. While the Elephant is no longer a danger to the people, it still must be shot because that is what the people expect, and if he does not shoot the elephant he will laugh and ridicule him.

   The long description only serves to further the sense of waste and hopelessness. Shooting the elephant was a terrible thing, as was colonial oppression, and the sight of the elephant dying is sure to leave a mark on the reader and drive home the point.

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   Posted by a-b on Monday January 29, 2007 at 9:28 PM
   
   

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