Shooting An Elephant.
Forcing myself to sit down and slowly turning the first two pages of the story, tears ran down my face, not for the reason that I was so touched by the story but because it was so boring that I kept yawning and almost fell asleep on my desk. Yet shortly after the police character fired his first shot at the poor elephant that my eyes were wide open, and I came to understand what was taking place in the story.
One..twoÂ…threeÂ…fourÂ…shots were fired through the elephant, and he collapsed gradually. I am not sure how many bullets that unfortunate animal had taken. All that went through my head was just cold, cruel "bang" sounds. As I read this part, strangely enough, I didn't think abt how coward and cruel the police was or how sorry I felt for the elephant but abt family and lost loves.
I looked at the author's picture' he seems as a normal, lanky man in my grandmother's black and white yearbook but I cannot tell how his brain works. Keeping in mind that his short story is a modern......
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