1. A Big Fat Target
The narrator in George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" is faced with precisely this kind of situation. A young British police officer in early twentieth century colonial Burma feels forced 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. ... However, unlike the mob of over two thousand Burmese in Orw...
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