Orwell's Shooting an Elephant

Orwell's Shooting an Elephant

  • Submitted By: alhall07
  • Date Submitted: 11/08/2009 1:56 PM
  • Category: English
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Orwell’s shooting an Elephant
In life we all face situations where we have to make troubling decisions. At times we don’t want to think for our selves and allow others to make the decision for us. There’s so many ways we all allow this to happen whether it be others telling us, quilting us, using temptation or pressuring us. In shooting an elephant, Orwell was pressured to do something that was very unnerving to him, which was to shoot a ravaging elephant! “For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the “natives”. “Moreover, I did not intend in the least want to shoot him” (the elephant). With the crowd on Orwell’s back following him, he had to sake the on lookers in to thinking he had clear intentions on shooting the elephant. “I had no intention on shooting an elephant-I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary-and it is always unnerving to have a crowd following you”.
I can relate to Orwell’s situation on having to do something you’re against because of the spectators around you. My junior year in high school I got pregnant. It was a very unplanned and unexpected pregnancy that I was seriously not ready for. Before taking any pregnancy test, I didn’t know for sure if I was pregnant but knew at that moment if I was; I didn’t want to be! I never noticed not having a cycle for 2 ½ months until my mother asked when my last cycle was. Not knowing what to do or say, I did what any other child who had been doing wrong would do, I lied. I made up an obvious date and she didn’t suspect a thing too busy trying to figure out her own cycle. After taking the test, my best friend felt I should tell my mother right away, but I knew that was not the thing to do. Because I didn’t want the baby, as well as wanting to have one by my then boyfriend, I didn’t want many people to know so I kept it in my close circle of friends. They all suggested, begged, and pleaded for me not to have an abortion, but I knew my...

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