The fire seems to not move at all, as if it were paralyzed.
"Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by English writer George Orwell. In "Shooting an Elephant." The essay illustrates the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma.
“Shooting an Elephant” is set in Moulmein, in Lower Burma. The narrator is Orwell.