Shooting An Elephant
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The Fool
I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.
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futility of the white man
And suddenly I realized that I should have to shoot the elephant after all. The people expected it of me and I had got to do it; I could feel their two thousand wills pressing me forward, irresistibly. And it was at this moment, as I stood there with the rifle in my hands, that I first grasped the hollowness, the futility of the white man's dominion in the East.
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sea of yellow faces
At that moment I glanced round at the crowd that had followed me. It was an immense crowd, two thousand at the least and growing every minute. They were watching me as they would watch a conjurer about to perform a trick. They did not like me, but with the magical rifle in my hands I was momentarily worth watching.
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young and illeducated
I was young and illeducated and I had had to think out my problems in the utter silence that is imposed on every Englishman in the East. I did not even know that the British Empire is dying, still less did I know that it is a great deal better than the younger empires that are going to supplant it. All I knew was that I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evilspirited little beasts who tried to make my job impossible.
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