In “Shooting an Elephant”, George Orwell expresses his opinion on imperialism when he says: “I have been hated by a great many people: the only time in my life I've been in have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was the city police officer and, in a mean and aimless way, the anti-European feeling was very bitter” (1). The main sentences of the first paragraph indicate the terrible path of imperialism and its destructive consequences step by step for both sides of the situation. His handling of the work with the Burmese gave him a closer view of the “dirty work of the Empire” and gave him an unbearable sense of guilt. Orwell knew he was held back by his hatred of the empire he had broken and his anger at the people who made his job more difficult. One day, Orwell receives a phone call about an elephant that has lost control and starts destroying someone's. The number has reached more than two thousand individuals, each of whom energetically hopes to see the destruction of the elephant. Orwell feels like an artist tasked with engaging them and understands that he is currently forced to shoot the elephant. Orwell keeps telling himself that he doesn't want to kill the elephant. He compares the elephant to a grandmother so precious and peaceful that killing it would be murder. After contemplating killing the elephant, Orwell lies down on the ground and aims at the elephant's head and shoots. When he fired the first bullet it elicited a roar of excitement from the crowd behind him. As he looks at the elephant he notices that it did not fall; therefore, Orwell sends two more shots causing the elephant to collapse to the ground. The elephant was still breathing in pain, so Orwell fires two more shots where he thinks the heart would be, but it did nothing to the creature. He gets his little rifle and shoots whatever he had left, but the elephant remained