Indledning
“Shooting an Elephant” is a short story written by George Orwell in 1938. In the story he tells about how he had to shoot an elephant to not get mocked by the Burmans. Orwell didn’t like imperialism and was actually for the Burmans and against the British.
This analytical essay will come across what connections that can be made from the text to the time period imperialism, it will be written with the pee-model in mind. There will be a special focus on quotes and having a clear connecting thread through out the essay. The essay will finish up with a conclusion.
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Uddrag
As a white European police officer in a foreign country, Orwell sensed a lot of hostility towards him. He was British and the Burmans didn’t like that.
“As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so. When a nimble Burman tripped me up on the football field and the referee (another Burman) looked the other way, the crowd yelled with hideous laughter. This happened more than once” (Orwell, 1938, page 1, line 7-11)
In this quote from the text it’s assumable that he is talking about how the Burmans did everything in their power to humiliate and tease him. By the way that he is putting it, it could be argued whether or not the Burmans were very hostile towards white people. Orwell claimed to be an easy target to the Burmans because he was a police officer.
The fact that he was a police officer made him an easy target was maybe because they didn’t want him to feel powerful and raised above their population. Orwell also claimed earlier that the Burmans were too scared to riot about the British being the ones with power, but not too scared to harass a few officers and other whites.
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