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Shooting Elephant

Shooting Elephant. Thomas Agnew 11/04/13 1 st period. Author and Background information.

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Shooting Elephant

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  1. Shooting Elephant Thomas Agnew 11/04/13 1st period

  2. Author and Background information The Author is Eric A. Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell George Orwell is a fictional account of an Englishman employed in the Colonial Police force in the colonized nation of Burma in Southeast Asia.

  3. Theme Don’t let peer pressure change you in anyway

  4. Plot A young officer is picked on by his officer because he is from another country they get a call saying a elephant is in musk so he grabs his rifle and go on the hunt he kills the elephant because he fills like it will make his fellow officers look at him different because the elephant killed one guy so it will be the right thing to do.

  5. Characters/Speaker and descriptions Officers-alert Crowd-Scared Elephant-wild and scared

  6. Conflict A officer don’t want to shoot the elephant but he does because he is pressured

  7. Resolution Elephant dies

  8. Memorable line He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it

  9. Three question Why did the elephant die Why did the owner not capture the elephant Why didn’t they try to just tranquilize him

  10. Information What would have happen if the elephant didn’t die what could have been done different

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