Shooting an Elephant Project
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- EXPOSITION
- CONFLICT
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- RISING ACTION
- In this short story, the narrator is a British police officer in Burma. The Burmese people have an intense disdain for their British oppressors. But he also knows that he has a job and a position to uphold for the time being - at least until the end of World War Two.
- CLIMAX
- In a local bazaar, an elephant has gone "must," or insane, and has been acting aggressively. After the elephant escaped, the mahout, the elephant's trainer and caretaker, went out in pursuit of it, but he headed in the wrong direction.
- FALLING ACTION
- The crowd follows the narrator as he finds the elephant grazing grass in the field, despite the fact that the narrator initially sent for the rifle for defense. He will appear foolish if he simply walks away.
- RESOLUTION
- After being shot by a white police officer, an elephant collapses to the ground in agony but does not die. The elephant is a valuable and significant item to the narrator, and killing him makes no sense. The narrator has no idea how to kill an elephant but decides to go ahead and shoot anyhow.
- The narrator continues to shoot the elephant in locations where he believes it will die soon, although he is unsure of the elephant's anatomy. Several shots to the chest and head are ineffective. The elephant suffers incessantly until the narrator is forced to leave. The Burmans scavenge the bones of the deceased elephant.
- The narrator describes what happened following the incident. The owner was enraged, but because he was an Indian, his opinion didn't matter much. The narrator was legally justified in murdering the elephant because it had killed the coolie man. One European man remarked that killing the elephant for murdering a coolie was a waste of money because the elephant is worth more. The narrator is aware that he did it to avoid appearing foolish.
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