Orwell wrote this particular writing during the imperialism era in Burma. People use to worship elephants there particularly because of their belief in Buddhism. This is particularly why in the story, the officer’s choice of killing the elephant became a hard decision for him. The plot actually starts with a police officer’s faced with the situation where an elephant smothered a community because of it growing wild. The said situation drew to him to a much more complicated decision of whether to kill the elephant or not when the whole community was watching what his next move would be upon seeing the elephant gazing after it just killed an Indian woman as it was looking innocently unknowing of what it just did.
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