Shooting An Elephant AUDIOBOOK - George Orwell

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An audiobook of a real story by George Orwell in which he is forced by a giant crowd of people to shoot an elephant with an elephant gun, but they elephant doesn't die in at all a good way. The story takes place in the early 1900s in Moulmein, in lower Burma, in India, when England was still doing the whole imperialism thing. He was a sub-divisional police officer of the town, and there was lots of anti-European sentiment among the native Indians. Young Buddhist priests would just stand on street corners and jeer at Europeans. Because George Orwell was a police officer, this made him an easy target for them to pick on, which made him mad.
Someone ironically, he already disagreed with the idea of imperialism, so he simultaneously hated and agreed with the people who would mock and bully him every chance they got.
Anyways, one day he gets a call that an elephant is on the loose, and they want him to do something about it, so he takes his rifle, an old 44 Winchester.
He finds out that the elephant was was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one which had gone “must.” It had been chained up, as tame elephants always are when their attack of “must” is due, but on the previous night it had broken its chain and escaped. Its mahout, the only person who could manage it when it was in that state, had set out in pursuit, but had taken the wrong direction and was now twelve hours’ journey away.
In his search for the elephant, George found a victim of the elephant's rampage, a man’s dead body sprawling in the mud. He was an Indian, a black Dravidian coolie.
As soon as he saw the dead man he sent an orderly to a friend’s house nearby to borrow an elephant rifle. He was only planning to use the elephant gun as a last resort, but changed his mind when he saw that a crowd of people had slowly started following him. It was an immense crowd, two thousand at the least and growing every minute. It blocked the road for a long distance on either side.
The elephant seemed like it was calm and wouldn't do any more rampaging, so he didn't think it was a good idea to kill it. But when he saw the crowd of more than 2000 poor Indian people behind him, he felt compelled to do it because he didn't want the crowd to laugh at him.
When he shot the elephant, it didn't die right away, it didn't even really move. He had to shoot it again and again and again with his elephant gun and then with a pistol, but it still wouldn't die, so he ended up just leaving it, barely alive to slowly die a painful death.
I hope you get something out of the story.

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