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Premier91
Pilus Prior
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Toto
Primus Pilus
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Registration date : 2006-09-26
| | Subject: Re: elephant Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:18 am | |
| Metaphorically, the elephant is a significant chunk of the natural inhabitants of Burma. Killing the elephant is like killing many other animals. There is a lot of life that must escape the elephant before he is completely dead. | |
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cgiraud
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| | Subject: Re: elephant Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:45 am | |
| If the elephant is a metaphor for a country under imperialist rule as we discussed in class, what might Orwell be saying about those countries? | |
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cgiraud
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| | Subject: Re: elephant Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:48 am | |
| - Toto wrote:
- Metaphorically, the elephant is a significant chunk of the natural inhabitants of Burma. Killing the elephant is like killing many other animals. There is a lot of life that must escape the elephant before he is completely dead.
How is that like Burma? What happens to the people of an occupied nation? What is happening to the people in this story? How does the narrator describe his interactions with the people and what he observes about their situation under imperialist rule? | |
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ShaniquaStarquisha2717
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PyroLion
Pilus Prior
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| | Subject: Re: elephant Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:36 am | |
| The elephant taking so long to die is showing the dramatic space in time for the main character to relize his mistake eventhough he doesnt say it. | |
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angrypirate1323
Princepales
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Registration date : 2006-09-27
| | Subject: Re: elephant Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:31 pm | |
| the Elephant is a strong power and it is not easy to bring down an elephant. the metaphor he uses is a good one b/c people want to stop the powerful elephant, but no single person can actually complete the task everyone is going to need to defeat the elephant, they are going to need to come together as a whole. This theory apparently comes true due to the death of the elephant. But the big ? now is whatare the people going to do? | |
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MAXMAX
Princepales
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Registration date : 2006-09-27
| | Subject: Re: elephant Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:40 pm | |
| The man who shoots the elephant shoots it without studying the best and most merciful way to kill an elephant. He made the decision on the spot because of the pressure he was under from the hungry Burmans. He shoots the elephant in the wrong place, putting it through a slow agonizing death. It takes it a long time because he didn't know where to shoot the elephant to make it's death close to instant and relatively unpainful.
The metaphor here is the manner in which Britain is slowly killing Burma; instead of quickly ending all their lives they imprison them and let them slowly rot in their cells. | |
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The metaphor in Orwell's piece is that the elephant represents the town of Burma and the Burmese represent the elephant. The Burmese utilize the resourses of the elephant just like the British are utilizing the resourses of the town of Burma. I think the elephant taking a long time to die is a metaphor for the British occupation taking a long time to die. 