ENGL 2025 Chapter : Shooting An Elephant By Orwell
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George orwell (1903 1950) has written some of the most influential novels and essays of the 20th century. His work, including animal farm and nineteen eighty-four, centers on biting satire, examinations of the dangers of totalitarian political systems, and frightening depictions of future dystopias. As you read, consider the way orwell presents himself as the narrator through his depictions of his actions and reactions. In moulmein, in lower burma, i was hated by large numbers of people the only time in my life that i have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-european feeling was very bitter. No one had the guts to raise a riot, but if a european woman went through the bazaars alone somebody would probably spit betel juice over her dress.
