Shooting an elephant-George Orwell

     After reading Orwells's essay it seemed quite clear that he was a weak figure in his society because of his background.He was an ordinary english policeman that was liked by almost no one,until an escaped elephant gave him the chance to feel important in some way. Everyone around him was somehow pressuring him to shoot the elephant when he really had no wish to harm it. It almost seemed to me that he was basically a puppet in their hands at that moment because his actions did not reflect what was really on his mind. Of course after shooting the elephant he wanted to rationalize his actions by stating how the elephant killed a man so it could lessen his guilt. The situation that he had to go through made me realize that why he did what he did was quite normal because it's only human to fall under pressure and do what everybody else wants you to. It's easy to quickly be under a large group's control because you would want to please them.  
     George Orwell wrote this story in chronological order,event after event and included where it took place,which was India, all the people that he encountered,what happened,and we can assume it happened around the early to mid 1900's. He also added a small piece of dialogue where someone was screaming and warning the children to go away. This showed that he probably wanted to add the reactions or a personal encounter of someone who witnessed the elephant,bringing us back to that exact moment. He also had a plot, conflict,and climax. Orwell also incorporated figurative language into his essay. For example, he uses a simile when he says how the elephant stripped off the dead man's skin from his back "as neatly as one skins a rabbit," and also after he shot the elephant he said how the blood "welled out of him like red velvet." He was also very descriptive and included very specific details, like when he described the dark Indian coolie laying dead on his belly after the elephant cruelly killed him. 
     According to google, imperialism is the policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy and military force. George Orwell uses the incident of the shooting of the elephant to illustrate his feelings of imperialism because he completely resented the whole idea of it. George Orwell hated imperialism but he was forced to stay under it, just like like he hated the idea of shooting the elephant, but was forced to shoot it because he was under the pressure of all the people around him. Also kinda like how imperialism gains power by using force, in a way Orwell also had some sort of power when he used his rifle to shoot the elephant. He took complete control and had all the power to do whatever he wished to with the elephant.