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Personal Response To Orwell's "Shooting An Elephant" - Papers

Personal Response To Orwell's "Shooting An Elephant"

Reading Orwell's "Shooting An Elephant" helped me to remember about
many decisions I have made, including a decision I made on a warm senior
day of high school during lunch. "Shooting An Elephant" is ingeniously
linked to everyday life. Orwell writes about his experiences as a
political intruder in a western country, how it affected his life, and how
these people influenced him to kill an elephant. My decisions are often
based on the same subliminal whispers Orwell heard when he was marching to
keep the peace. More times than not, for good or bad, my decisions are
frequently made with the same forces acting upon me.

During my last year of high school I had a most interesting ...

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standing on top of the table and striping their clothes off to jumping in a
near-by garbage can. None-the-less I tried to stay away from such oddities
and keep an observatory posture, which in turn happens to be what Orwell
would have preferred. All of these maniacal actions undoubtedly spawned
from good old peer pressure, or the natives watching us, expecting such
activities.

In the center of our table was a hole, no one knows for sure why,
maybe it was for a big umbrella to keep the sun and rain out, but now there
was a hole a little bigger than a quarter. I don't know who started it or
when, but for at least a whole school year people sitting at the table
would put any biodegradable substance they could find in the hole.
Everything from mayonnaise, to scabs, to bugs was shoved down that hole.
Finally one day the hole filled up and we didn't have anything to do with
the mixture, so someone suggesting taking a bite of it. This suggestion
came up more often over ...

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Added: 9/14/2007 12:00:06 AM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
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