Short Story 2

George Orwell in “Shooting an Elephant” is a young police officer. He is misunderstood by the people of the small Burma town. The people inside the town hate the authority of the their city because they are ran by the people with the higher authority so these people feel that they shouldn’t help or shouldn’t even talk to them about anything because of the way they are treated by them. The subjects of imperialism or British colonization but one there officer is George Orwell one of the ones that are loyal that has different opinions from the people he works for but the people in Burma trust no one who works for the authority of their city. The Burmese people call the officers of their town “yellow faces which is a bad name for the European officers.”
The Europeans treated the Burmese people like trash even though they had been prosecuted they are misunderstood just like some people are still treated here in the United States. The way the convicts had to live were unexplainable “they had to live in stinking cages” but that one officer Orwell still disapproves of what is going on with the people and the authority and he really wants to help badly. That is where the elephant comes in to play because the young European officer is forced to kill an elephant in the town but he really doesn’t want to kill the endangered species until it presses its huge foot in the back of one of the citizens from the town and crushes him with tons of force into the mud. The officer had trouble with shooting the elephant but not in a way that it was hard to kill but in a way that he had love for animals and he was pressured to pull the trigger.
My opinion on why the author wrote this story is to show how people of non democracy countries are treated. The Burmese people are treated like animals from their own houses to the prisons of the country. This story is a way of showing the actions that the government takes upon their citizens. I think this is a great way of reaching out to people or countries that may can come and help the people of the country. I don’t think that no one should be treated the way these people are treated. People should have rights all over the world and not just ran by government, the people should have a say so of what goes on where they are citizens of.
The reason I think it is important to read about things like this is because if no one hears about peoples problems they could never be fixed. To be heard you have to speak out like the Author of this story did. The reason that these stories are so popular is because things that are happening in foreign countries are important to countries that are democracies. There are instance that people could help me on if I wrote them and publish them to the public. It would never happen that way because I think that my problems aren’t anyone else’s so I try to solve them myself.