HISA 3003 Lecture 5: The Indian National Congress (1885 – Present)
6 Jul 2016
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Shooting an elephant by george orwell: paragraph 1: Narrator = colonial policemen in british burma: disrespected by the local people because of anti-european feeling. Bad relationship between locals and authority: paragraph 2: Narrator gets called by sub-inspector a burmese of cer who calls the narrator for help after an elephant gets loose in the town. Incident = elephant was ravaging the bazaar a tame elephant that had gone must. : destroyed somebody"s bamboo hut, killed a cow and raided some fruit-stalls and devoured the stock. , paragraph 4: An indian, a black dravidian coolie, almost naked, and he could not have been dead many minutes. killed by elephant: he saw the death and sent an orderly to fetch him an elephant ri e, paragraph 5: Orderly came back with a ri e + 5 cartridges. All townspeople very excited the minute he has the gun and goes for the elephant excited by the suspense and prospect of meat.
