Presentation Time :D

We presented ‘’ Shooting an Elephant’’ on 12 April. In my opinion we can do a better presentation but we will try to show good question and clear explanation to next presentation :D in addition thanks a lot Sonja because she always support us in during present short story and really useful feedback instead of my bad ideas about presentation.

Positive points

• Great thesis!
• A good point about there being no Burmese phrases, although there were some from Indian languages: coolie, mahout
• Ironies in the story pointed out
• Good to relate this story to his other, more famous novels,
• Good thematic division
• Elephant as imperialism an interesting interpretation

Points to improve

• Remember to make your summary interactive...
• Provide some sociohistoric context to enable the audience to understand in more depth
• More research was needed at times in order to make more convincing points
• Try to include some relevant quotations to bring your themes to life
• Pronunciation and grammar
• Make eye contact with the audience and try to move away from the desk a bit

Shooting an Elephant

George Orwell shows his own experience in this short story. He was police officer who is forced to kill an elephant in Burma. However, this story is not about the killing an elephant. Writer criticizes that the imperialism in Burma (by England). George Orwell wanted to show that the results of imperialism and he use the elephant to show this situation. Elephant refers to the British imperialism in this story. In addition, the death of elephant is slow, which means painful and slow process. The victim of the imperialism is not only exploited nations but also the citizens of the Western Empires. We made a presentation about shooting an elephant short story with Bedi, Selim, Elif and me.