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Got a call from a sub-inspector, ask for help, do something to a “must” elephant
Heard about the accident on the way
Arrived on the scene and asked where the elephant had gone
Heard yells, rounded the hut and saw a miserable corpse of a coolie
Sent an orderly to buy a rifle
Started forward to the paddy field with many followers
Saw the elephant, become tamed again
Decided not to kill the elephant
Felt must kill the elephant
Shot the elephant
Burman people went to the half-dead animal, some with dahs and baskets
I went away
2. Essay (from ‘Shooting an Elephant, 4 Other Essays’)
3. Yes (the language is so realistic)
4. P36 (felt “I” should not shoot the animal and at the same time the pressure to
shoot the animal); to the narrator, or to the shooter
5. Poor, dirty, stuffy, natural,