Shooting an elephant substance
Shooting an Elephant ▾ search Search for any book or any question Shooting an Elephant HOME > STUDY GUIDES > SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT Shooting an Elephant Summary George Orwell At a Glance In "Shooting an Elephant," Orwell draws on his own experiences of shooting an elephant in Burma. This elephant has been terrorizing a bazaar, but the narrator has serious misgivings about shooting it. He does it anyway, afraid of being considered weak. “Shooting an Elephant” summary key points: The narrator is a colonial policeman in British Burma who is disrespected by the local people. The narrator learns that an elephant is ravaging a bazaar. He arrives on the scene and prepares to kill the animal. The narrator realizes that unless he kills the elephant, the Burmese people will laugh at him. He shoots the elephant, who suffers an agonizing death. The official verdict vindicates the narrator’s shooting of the elephant.
