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Shooting An Elephant

In the story “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, the main character had gone threw a big change throughout the story. The changes that he had encountered may have not been intentional, but peer pressure has its way of influencing people to do things they don’t want to do. In this story a tamed elephant turns for the worse and the main character is called into take care of the problem.
The main character in this story starts off with a very different mindset then when he ends the story. At the beginning of “Shooting an Elephant” the main character, a police officer, gets a call to take care of an elephant that is running wild. He goes to where the elephant is with the mind set that he was just going to scare the elephant. The first sentence of this story is a very powerful quote. The quote “In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people,” sets a setting on how this story is going to be. This quote shows that what ever this police officer does......


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