... points; 2 points each) Directions: Circle the best answer for each question. 1. Orwell takes great length in describing the elephant's demise. What does his description foreshadow? a. the rise of the empire b. the fall of the empire c. the prosperity of the empire d. the birth of the empire e. the dream of a new empire 2. The speaker's attitude toward shooting the elephant as revealed in paragraph 7 is one of: a. incredulity b. resignation c. despair d. divination e. disillusion 3. Each of the following quotations contains irony EXCEPT ... : a. "The crowd yelled with hideous laughter. " ...

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After reading George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant," one realizes just how ineffective an imperialistic government really is. Imperialism in some places of the world is considered a perfectly adequate, especially in England. Unfortunately, these are usually the people who dominate other countries in the name of the King, or who have never experienced it firsthand. The mistakes of imperialism are painfully evident in Orwell's ... loss either. He feels he has no choice but to give in to the natives. This is just another consequence and result of the flawed system called Imperialism. Orwell's lo...

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George Orwell, Author of" Shooting an Elephant". Began by stating and opinion of the Burmese natives saying," (He was hated by large number of people") Orwell 133. Including the young monks. Orwell was a police officer that hated his job in the city of Burma. And had death in his hands when he decided to kill the poor Elephant which is selfish in his part ... is something that is very shameful in human nature because why kill something so innocent?. Yes the Elephant made a mistake, but should we truly blame the Elephant or should the owner who locked up the Beast in the cage be the blame that...

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... to act irrationally. He must contend with an excited mob of over two thousand Burmese townspeople who wish him to shoot an escaped elephant, while taking into consideration the loss to the show elephant's owner along with his own distaste for shooting the great beast, " Somehow it always seems worse to kill a large animal," he remarks. Although today we are often led to abandon reason and ... from a group, this rarely occurs in adulthood or to the extent described in "Shooting an Elephant." The British officer makes an irrational decision and shoots the escaped elephant against his will...

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