Shooting an Elephant
The story is told in two senses: the past and the present. What effect does this have on its telling?
From Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
From Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
The past gives us a sense of the imperialist mentality as well as Orwell's struggleds to reconcile both his job and his identity. Orwell knows he is, in the end, part of a foreign occupier. Orwell in the present shows his ambivelence to being in Burma and being the only man with a gun.