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This 6 page paper discusses George Orwell’s short story, “Shooting an Elephant.” Bibliography lists 2 sources
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Elephant" is a straightforward account of an incident in which a sub-divisional police officer shot an elephant that had gone on a rampage. But the story has many layers to
it, and evokes a definite time and place: Burma, at a time when it was still under British rule. George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Blair, who
was born in Motihari, Bengal in 1903, where his father was a civil servant (Merriman). His mother took him to England when he was a year old, and he didnt
see his father again until 1912, when he visited England for three months (Merriman). Blair had a younger sister, Avril and an older sister named Marjorie, and with characteristic humor
described his family as "lower-upper-middle class" (Merriman). He attended the "Anglican parish school of Henley-on-Thames for two years" and then entered St. Cyprians School, located in Sussex (Merriman). Because corporal
punishment was common at the time, he was undoubtedly beaten at school, and this was "possibly a source of his initial resentment towards authority" (Merriman). Blair wrote his first published
poem at St. Cyprians; and from there he earned a scholarship to the "most costly and snobbish" of all English public schools, Eton, which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In
1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and joined the Indian Imperial Police (Merriman). He remained in Burma for five years, and developed a great love and
respect of the Burmese people at the same time he began to hate the oppressive British imperial system that oppressed them (Merriman). His dislike of that system is shown clearly
in "Shooting an Elephant." He resigned from the Burmese police and returned to England in 1927; he also lived in Paris for a time (Merriman). He fought briefly in the
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