1. George Orwell has a negative attitudes regarding imperialism, the native peoples, and his own position in Burma. He states, "...I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing and the sooner I chucked up my job and got out of it the better." He also states, "As for the job I I was doing, I hated it more bitterly than I can perhaps make clear." and uses derogatory terms such as "yellow faces" and "coolies" to describe Asians and Natives.
2. Orwell views the nature of imperialism as such: The only power white men have is the facade of control they put impose on people when it is actually the other way around.
3. Orwell mostly felt compelled to shoot the elephant out of peer pressure that arose from his status as a tyrant from a foreign land and the need to be liked.
4. You want to hear my honest opinion about Orwell? He's a jerk and lower than the scum of the earth in this story. His pride makes me so irritated that he would only shoot a poor creature for the sake of his dignity. If the younger men believed that the elephant shouldn't have been killed because the man it killed wasn't worth it, then let me just say that Orwell's dignity was definitely not wroth the death of an elephant because he himself is just as lowly as the "coolie." And also, the older men who praised for killing the elephant because it was out of control and needed to be taken care of obviously have no idea how different a freaking dog is from A FREAKING ELEPHANT!!!!......That is all.
5. One of the ideas about human motives that he describes is how in the end, people usually care about themselves and if they have to, they'll do what they can or need to in order to save themselves. He basically says that everyone follows the "Every man for himself" policy, which only true to some people because there are good-hearted people! This idiot who shot the elephant for the sake of protecting his own nonexistent dignity is a perfect example of a horrible human with no soul and motives to save themselves when it comes down to the last straw. However, in my life, I have seen and met genuinely nice people who are there to help you out and support through whatever is going on in my life. It's called selflessness, and I've seen it many times in rare yet memorable people including my friends and family. Orwell can go suck on an egg for all I care. THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD ORWELL! STOP BEING SO FREAKING NEGATIVE AND CONSERVATIVE!!!
Go get him, Abegail!
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