Kairos Analysis on Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

The author, George Orwell, directly starts the story by first writing the point of view on Imperialism by British. He claimed that it is wickedness and he is completely in opposition to the oppressors i.e. the British. He put his experience in British-ruled India in the early Twentieth Century. At the time, he was a young, inexperienced soldier stationed there to help protect the Queen's interests (Orwell & George, 2008, pp. 81 - 98). The author beautifully reflects the scenario of the event as it looks like a reality to the reader.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit a sin out of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it becomes impossible friendship, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and waste of life, inevitable price of loving other human individuals (from 'Reflections on Gandhi', in Shooting an Elephant, 1949).

Though, Orwell is best known as a novelist, his essays are among the best of the twentieth century. He also wrote articles and reviews for newspapers, which performed for pay, but they were, however, very careful writing, especially his essays for newspapers Partisan Review, Adelphi & Horizon. There were never-ending debates regarding the story of shooting of the elephant. The owner was angry, but it was only an Indian and could do nothing. In addition, under the law, I had done the right thing, as a mad elephant has to be killed like a mad dog, if its owner failed to master it. George Orwell. Shooting an Elephant was first published in New Writing in 1948. The documentary looks more like a reality that a film that seeks to educate and inform the viewer. It happened during the winter of 2009, when the monstrous Israeli war machine spat tons of bombs on the sky and the land of the Strip (Orwell & George, 2008, pp. 81 - 98). Because if it's like the saying about not so blind as those who will not see, shoot an elephant, opens our eyes, challenges us and makes us feel, at least in the heart, the molten lead over consciences silenced during the bombing of Gaza.

Shooting an elephant is not an easy material to digest, and neither has been the slaughter itself. On Monday, January 18 was ...