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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,

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