Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell becoming a double-agent working against

becoming a double-agent working against the East India Company

He had left things for too long and there was no one to blame for it but himself

south to India and parts of Indonesia

develop a habit of creating probing questions

and Hindus and Muslims and Jews

Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell becoming a double-agent working against'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as 'My Country Right or Left', 'How the Poor Die' and 'Such, Such were the Joys', his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping