Shooting an Elephant was an essay about George Orwell in his early life as an English police officer in Burman where Englishman are hated. Orwell has to kill an elephant and has to live with the decision he makes in his life. One morning, Orwell gets a call from the village down the road about an elephant that has gone lose and villagers are wanting Orwell to kill the elephant that is in “must”. He discovers the elephant has killed a man by implanting his body into the ground. As he is trying to find out where the elephant went he finds that he is being followed by hundreds of Burman’s. Once he found the elephant he finds that the elephant is peaceful and harmless. Orwell is now finding himself making and big decision and looking at the pros and cons of killing the elephant. After the trigger is pulled by Orwell, the elephant slowly begins to die. He cannot bear to watch it die as he left and found out that it took the elephant an hour and a half to take his last breath and only took until the afternoon for the elephant’s body to be stripped. Later that night, he hears the villagers talking over about his decision and he hopes that one day they will see why he did what he did. Orwell’s begins to regret his decision because he lost his ability to make a moral decision (Orwell).

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Orwell, George. "George Orwell." By George Orwell. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2016. <http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/>.