Shooting+an+Elephant

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=Assignment:= After reading George Orwell's famous story, "Shooting an Elephant", one may be left with some mixed feelings about our main character. For your assignment, I want you to consider the many layers of this story and address one of these questions below. 1. Evaluate the narrator's decision and reason why this opinion is justified. 2. Identify a line from the story that you believe lends greater understanding to the interpretation of the story. 3. Much like we did with //The Kite Runner//, match up the major players in the story with the history of India beneath Imperial Britain. The elephant, the crowds, even the elephant's master are all representing a more important bigger idea. 4. Consider Orwell's purpose for sharing this autobiographical story so many years after he left the army. Why this memory? Why this event?