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How does the animal react when shot ?(in the short story shooting an elephant)

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In "Shooting an Elephant," Orwell draws on his own experiences of shooting an elephant in Burma. This elephant has been terrorizing a bazaar, but the narrator has serious misgivings about shooting it. He does it anyway, afraid of being considered weak.

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