Controversy Involved In Stephen Montague's Attack On An Elephant

Not surprisingly, elephants are known for being more emotional and empathetic animals than the rest. According the three articles, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task”, and “Elephants Console Each Other” elephants understand when they need each other’s assistance. All two authors describe the studies of elephant behavior differently, but with a similar purpose.

Furthermore, in the last article, “Elephants Console Each Other.” Written by Virginia Morell. The purpose that the author wrote this is to inform the people that are reading this, with facts about how elephants console each other. I know this because in the passage it states. “They help baby elephants stuck in mud holes, use their trunks to ift other elephants that are injured or dying, and even reportedly reassure distressed individual elephants with a gentle touch of their trunk.” This was written for someone who wants to learn about elephant behaviour due to the evidence in the

Every hunter proceeded with the utmost caution. When an elephant was spotted, everyone stayed back as one of the lead hunters, Arumba, stepped up to take aim at the elephant. The first time, he was unsuccessful because the elephant galloped away right before he had a chance to strike, it took a few more hours to re-track the creature. When it was spotted again Arumba crept up with great stealth and ease and struck the elephant with the spear. Arumba's spear entered deep into the side of it's target. The elephant let out a screech of pain and galloped off again. The Mbuti hunters then followed the blood trail of the wounded elephant and waited for it to die. They followed this particular elephant for approximately two hours before it stopped running. Word was sent back to camp that an elephant was wounded and that they should be ready to move very soon. Later, the elephant was found again, swaying on it's feet fighting to stay alive. One of the hunters through a stick and hit the elephant in the head, it simply let out a yell, but did not move. "This animal is dead," said one of the hunters. They soon approached it and jabbed it lightly with the spear once more, it didn't even budge.

All week they’ve been tearing off bark and branches and eating around here. They would not even feel it if they stepped on a child in this dark night.” (Chapter one page eight of Fiela’s Child) They fear the elephants stepping on them. As Pa exclaims in chapter eighteen.

The story “Shooting an Elephant” is told by an ongoing and first person narrator, who was committed to events he was faced with and obtained insight and wisdom from these adventures even though he struggled internally and externally.

Who wants to shoot and Elephant? Was about a hunter named Robyn who goes to Botswana in Tanzania, with the intent to kill an elephant. She goes through intensive training on how to kill the elephant before she gets to Botswana. When she felt she was ready she traveled to Botswana and completed her mission of killing the defenseless elephant. She described killing the elephant as a something extra ordinary as she watched in amazement. Some questions then can be raised as to why was watching this animal die so amazing? Was the killing of this elephant in Africa ethical? Was it her moral right to do such a thing? The author’s purpose for this passage could have been to show us, the readers that women can be just as harsh with having the interest in killing large animals like men do. Ultimately, there is the one question of the perspectives of the people that own these elephants in Botswana, Tanzania in Africa. How do they feel about these foreign poachers that kill these gentle giants right in their backyard?

However, personally it is suggested that he doesn’t want to kill the elephant. When he finally shoots the

“Blissfully ignorant, as if I were in a zoo or in the presence of Babar or some other story-book elephant[…]The encounter itself was nothing but a projection of my own wish that a wild elephant would want to meet me. It was wrong to think that I could communicate with a strange elephant under these circumstances”.(XIV-Prologue) Masson simply thought that he could communicate with the elephant. In turn, He created a fantasy world similar to those often shown in Disney movies such as the Lion King that specifically portrays elephants bowing and waving their ears in the introduction of Simba, the protagonist. In doing so, Masson failed to realize that elephants aren’t like humans and cannot respond with a hello or any human form of greeting. Using Masson as an example, a full grown adult who was fully educated as to what animals really are in reality, was nearly killed because of his projection of an elephant from a book. Comparing this to a youth in general, any child would have easily been killed if they had done what Masson did. In fact many youths, teens, even adults have been harmed due to their false perceptions of animals. On June 27th, 2015, two male hikers from a city in Oregon, were injured by beavers

George Orwell is known for his brilliant work concerning his strong political and social beliefs. His essays, “A Hanging” and “Shooting an Elephant”, written five and ten years after working for the British Empire in India, were written as a portrayal of his regret for his past inaction against imperialism. In both instances, Orwell intentionally depicts himself as compliant to the Law of the Empire in India as he wants to explore the subject of imperialism from the perspective of the established authoritative figure as well as one of the Natives. His ambivalent ways are emphasized in these works in hopes of making its readers more sympathetic to the Indian cause as the narrator himself begins to doubt his own understanding of good and evil.

The narrator decided to shoot the elephant because he realized he will lose face and be humiliated if he does not shoot it.

Douglas Hamilton, Early in his career as a scientist of zoology, he went to Tanzania as a research volunteer in Lake Manyara National Park. He bought himself a small airplane for tracking elephants. So he became the first elephant research to focus closely on living individual animals. Then came the difficult years of the last 1970s and ‘80s, when Douglas-Hamilton sounded the alarm against the widespread killing of African elephants. Therefore, He organized an immensely ambitious survey of elephant populations throughout the continent. In addition, Douglas-Hamilton spent years investigating the status of elephant populations in Zaire, South Africa, Gabon, and elsewhere, bath up in his airplane and on the ground. However, his work helped to

Since the elephant was no longer a threat, there is no need to shoot it. The elephant should have been left alone in the field until its owner came to claim him.

The Elephant, frightened by the Pride, scrambles to his feet and runs to the nearby trees. He attempts to rip one out of the soil with his trunk and tusks, but the tree is too firmly rooted. His only option is some rotten logs, laying down on the bank, filled with termites and roaches. The Elephant, while hating insects, knows that this is his only option, and hoists the log up over the river with his tusks, and attempts to quickly stamp the log into the mud. However, in his haste he snaps the log, and watches as it floats down the

Once the elephant was found I would try to keep it isolated and far away from the village. Only if it charged and attempt to attack again, I’d be forced to kill it. In the story when the man found the elephant the author tells us it was grazing peacefully and looked no more harmful than a cow. He also explains the elephant was recovering from its musth stage. At this point, I would have monitor the animal carefully and wait until the mahout came back to capture it. There would have been absolutely no need to kill the

In the short story “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell’s, the conflict appears to be social and some type of internal conflict. Social conflicts “involves difference regarding personal or societal relationships or values.” Orwell’s opens to the reader saying that he was hated by the people from Lower Burma and he was a sub-divisional police officer. In paragraph 2, Orwell’s states “All I knew was that I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make my job impossible.” This is evidence of the character shows us how he has some type of conflict between himself and the society.