An Ordinary Man By Russesabaginga Analysis

As a European white man in the British colony of India, George Orwell, in his narrative essay Shooting an Elephant, describes one of his most memorable events while living in the Southeast Asian nation of Burma. Orwell’s purpose is to share the absolute horror of living in imperialism. He adopts a tense tone throughout his essay by using vivid description and gruesome imagery in order to relate the incident with the elephant to what it is like to live in imperialism.

What do you see when you think about the Holocaust? What are things you associate with it? Personally I think about the absolute evil of the Nazis and the horrible things that the Jews had to endure. I think about how gut wrenchingly terrible of a life style every one of those people had to live through and what it would be like to have been in their place. What I don’t think about and had never even considered before reading the book Ordinary Men is what it was like to be a member of one of the police battalions that had to do all these gut wrenchingly terrible crimes toward innocent human beings. I saw them as trained cold-blooded killers, robots under Hitler’s command, and nothing else. While reading this book I began to realize that these people were living human beings too, that at first felt disgusted by what they were instructed to do too and that’s what I think the author, Christopher Browning, was trying to do. He is saying that these men were just regular people that were trained to kill and that if we’re not aware of this phenomena that it could happen again.

George Orwell describes to us in “Shooting an elephant” the struggle that his character faces when to win the mobs approval and respect when he shoots down an innocent animal and sacrifices what he believes to be right. Orwell is a police officer in Moulmein, during the period of the British occupation of Burma. An escaped elephant gives him the opportunity to prove himself in front of his people and to be able to become a “somebody” on the social

The consequence of imperialism is discussed in “Shooting an Elephant”; The victim of imperialism is not only the natives but also the narrator. Indeed, this essay is about the suffering and the struggling of Orwell who is torn between the Burmese’s actions and the Imperial System.

Chaos is not a light subject, in fact it is the exact opposite.Chaos has occurred many times in history, and they happened all around the world. Many of these events involved a large number of deaths. In both Night and “An Ordinary Man” readers can see that in to survive you may need to lie, to convince others, and to be selfish, in times of chaos and mass tragedies with a plethora of innocent people dying for an unreasonable cause.

Helping 1,268 people survive is not easy especially when it is during a brutal genocide. The streets, a pool of blood and corpses,were your normal scenery when driving through the country of Rwanda. An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina is about the Rwanda War between Hutus and Tutsis and the mass genocide that broke out, and how Paul, just an ordinary man with a hotel, saved many people's lives who did not even fathom they would live to tell about the war. Paul Rusesabagina had many past upbringing and experiences that helped him ensure his survival and the survival of others that were in his life, such as how Paul's dad was Hutu and his mom was Tutsi, managing the Hotel Mille Collines,

George Orwell who wrote a narrative essay Shooting an Elephant” has a tense tone of literature towards his life. He is using a stressed tone due to peer pressure, and lack of confidence toward himself as he is an imperialist who came to protect uphold the laws. He's difficult attitude sets the scene for the story in his eyes. Throughout the story the concept of his decisions and action will be projected through the uses of diction; the write words to express his feelings.

In “Shooting an Elephant,” George Orwell achieves two achievements : he shows us his personal experience and his expression while he was in Burma; he use the metaphor of the elephant to explain to describe what Burma looked like when it was under the British Imperialism. The special about this essay is that Orwell tells us a story not only to see the experience that he had in Burma; he also perfectly uses the metaphor of the elephant to give us deep information about the Imperialism. By going through this essay, we can deeply understand what he thinks in his head. He successfully uses the word choices and the sentences to express his feeling. By reading this essay, Orwell succeeds us with his mesmerizing sentences and shows us the

Every writer has that one special quirk that keeps readers coming back for more. Whether it is the humor or the characters, most authors carry their quirks from story to story. In “Shooting an Elephant,” George Orwell describes his experience of shooting an elephant. In “A Hanging,” he describes the emotions that run through him as he watches the hanging of a prisoner. Both essays have similar key ideas that identify Orwell as a writer. The results of pride and power contribute to the themes that connect his essays and identify Orwell as a descriptive writer.

Racial hatred is prejudice and hostility targeting groups of color or ethnic backgrounds in various ways. “Night” by Elie Wiesel is a story about the author's experience during the Holocaust and how he survived through the harsh treatment of the concentration camps. Paul Rusesabagina’s “From An Ordinary Man” is about how the author saved many people from an ongoing tribe attack by putting them in his hotel. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”and Paul Rusesabagina's “From An Ordinary Man”, both the author's use of overall purpose, theme, and use of rhetoric help tell the stories of survivors.

In “Shooting an Elephant” and “Things We Knew When the House Caught Fire,” George Orwell and David Drury submit that societal expectations destructively negate individualism by depicting a lack of control experienced by those affected. In “Shooting an Elephant,” as Orwell prepares to shoot the elephant he reflects, “Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd- seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality, I was only an absurd pupped pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind” (Orwell 280). Though Orwell stands in a conventional position of power, expectations govern him. He is a “puppet” guided by the expectations of others, or an actor forced to perform the piece written for him; Orwell controls the gun, but expectations control him. Similarly, in “Things We Knew When the House Caught Fire,” Drury’s narrator struggles with his lack of agency, jealously criticizing the Bainers, stating, “Clearly they exerted their will over the Bainer parents. From our vantage point they were never spanked, never put on restriction, never punished” (Drury 119). Drury’s narrator envies the freedom of the Bainer children because he lacks agency within his own life. The narrator has a skewed vision of control, perceiving a lack of punishment to be an exertion of power by the Bainer children over their parents. Where the average person might see a healthy family that

People act differently either out on the streets, at home, in school or even at church. No one can say that they're not playing a false role, if they do; they're lying through their teeth. Orwell essay, “Shooting an Elephant” goes into depth of how the main character

George Orwell show the effects of imperialism and the development of tyranny in an imperialistic society, as a result of dehumanization and the forcing of ideals upon a population, and also how it executes the way the oppressors perform their tasks. In “Shooting an Elephant”, Orwell shows he is reflecting on his writing in Politics and the English Language”, because he is honest. Orwell shows that the oppressor is doing what the Burmese people want, so he will not look a fool. Orwell goes against his sympathy for the elephant and shoots him. Some may criticize that this is a form of animal cruelty, but he tells the truth that it is much worse to be humiliated and laughed upon. Like in most of his writings, Orwell likes to get straight to the

A large number of successful authors have one trait in common in their writing: they create a powerful narrative or argument through the concept of an other, a person or group who opposes the authors view. To choose one side of a conflict is to give an indication of what the persons beliefs, motivation, and identity are. In the case of Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell, he establishes his beliefs with the actions of Burmans, which he portrays as the others. He states that, “It was a bit of fun to them…it made me vaguely uneasy. I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself” (438). Orwells point is to make a sharp contrast between the narrator and the Burmans so that their values could be

Through the essay, with the use of particular emotional words and sentences, the audience can perceive Orwell’s feelings and emotions, by the memorable amount of pathos over his essay. Orwell goes on describing the cruel reality the Burmese people lived in by describing, with the use of dramatic and lively words, the terrible situations, and consequences of Imperialism. Giving more reasons for his logos, Orwell at the same time uses pathos to emotionally involve