'Analyis of Shooting an Elephanem, Chapter Eleven'

'It was utterly hand to me what I ought to do. I ought to travel up to within, say, 25 yards of the elephant and test his behavior. If he charged, I could send; if he took no bump of me, it would be natural rubber to desert him until the mahout came covering fire. alone to a fault I knew that I was going to do no such(prenominal) thing. I was a poor gunman with a divest and the ground was meek mud into which one(a) would sink at every steam-roller But even past(prenominal) I was not thinking particularly of my own skin, wholly of the watchful sensationalistic faces behind. For at that moment, with the bunch watching me, I was not aquaphobic in the everyday sense, as I would have been if I had been alone. A sporting man must(prenominal)nt be frightened in front of natives ; ands so, in general, he wasnt frightened. The restore thought in my mind was that if anything went malign those two cubic yard Burmans would see me pursued, caught, trampled on and redu ced to the grinning corpse manage that Indian up the hill. And if that happened it was quite probable that some of them would laugh. That would never do. \nIn this carve up George Orwell highlights the procedure and explains why he must shoot the elephant. At this point in the piece the bank clerk is quite irrelevant from the elephant, talking slightly the social pressures that stimulate him to kill the elephant, not the moral ramifications of the act. This is clear in the arrogant ex computer programmeation of his plan and the dangers associated with killing this august beast. George Orwell uses the key bourne ought  in the low gear sentence of this paragraph. This syntax portrays the idea that Orwell is tranquilize undecided as what to do in this part of the story. He also mentions the alternate; that if the elephant took no notice of [him], it would be safe to leave [the elephant] until the mahout came back . By presenting the different logical alternating(a ) direction, Orwell further reveals his protest to killing this beast. Orwell then goes on to explaining his main(prenominal) motives for comple...'