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- Exposition: Orwell, a young British police officer in Burma, was constantly treated with hateful stares and insults. The Burmese people don’t like their British oppressors. Orwell internally agrees with the Burmese, but he has a job and rules to enforce.
- Shooting an Elephant By George Orwell
- Rilynn Nuhfer
- Rising Action: Orwell comes across the elephant that had just killed a native Dravidian coolie. He sends someone to get him an elephant rifle and a crowd emerges. The elephant was peacefully eating grass in a field. Orwell knows the elephant is no longer any danger to them, but the crowd behind them wants him to shoot the elephant.
- Climax: Orwell doesn’t want to shoot the elephant because the elephant was worth more alive than he was dead, and because he saw no sense in killing it. But because he was one of the only white people around, he felt like he had to shoot the elephant. Orwell didn’t know how to shoot the elephant, so when he does shoot the elephant, he doesn’t die, but instead falls to the ground.
- Falling Action: Orwell tries to put the elephant out of its misery by shooting it in multiple other places, but to no avail. The elephant continued to suffer, but Orwell couldn’t take it anymore, so he walked away. When the elephant died thirty minutes later, the Burmans stripped the elephant of the bones.
- Resolution: The owner is furious, but the owner was an Indian, so his opinion was not really considered. Orwell didn’t get in trouble for shooting the elephant because he had killed a coolie. Orwell knew he had only shot the elephant becasue of pride.
- Theme: One should never do something only because they think other people want them to or becaused they were pressured into it.
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