Hi All,
I have been enjoying reading your posts and especially the comments that you are leaving on your classmate's posts. Please continue to leave such thoughtful responses. If you haven't done so already - start including a quote or two in your posts. Be sure to both introduce the quotes and explain why you chose them.
I am also including some links: the article Ann Patchett wrote about her relationship with Lucy Grealy and the article Lucy Grealy's sister wrote about her reaction to Patchett's article and book.
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/n_8396/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/aug/07/biography.features
For some reason this did not post to your account Not sure why. But Just FYI here it is
ReplyDeleteLeslie said...
Shooting an elephant: George Orwell
I found this piece to be a little disturbing in that the author begins the writing with such distaste with not only the job he is asigned to but the country he services and its government. The place where he is serving as a police officer shows no respect for his position and they demonstrate that by abusing him at every chance they got. Orwell definately describes the feeling of being an out cast ridiculed by the people(yellow faced) he is supposed to be protecting. In order to show strenght to thousands of the yellow faced individules he end s up killing and elephant which has gone rampant and later calms just so he "wouldnt look a fool". I wonder if the very suffering that the elephant goes through demonstates an example his whole experience in Burma. The fact tht Orwell says he does not want to kill the elephant on multiple occasions and does it any way peaks my courosity on how threatend he really was by these 2 thousand "unarmed' individuls.
July 19, 2010 3:22 AM