"Shooting an Elephant" & "Traveling Through the Dark" Essay
“Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell concludes:
“And afterwards I was very glad that the coolie had been killed; it put me legally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant. I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.”
Orwell implies that such petty and selfish reasons, if we are honest enough to admit it, often drive our actions.
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