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We can come to the mother country and work, you cant come here without a work permit. Karma. Great story. Very short. As well-written as everything else by Orwell.

Shooting an Elephant is Orwells searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd solely to avoid looking a fool.

The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as My Country Right or Left, How th.

Opinionated, uncompromising, provocative, and hugely entertaining, all show Orwells unique ability to get to the heart of any subject.

How would you feel if more The British owned the Indian Empire and therefore controlled the Burmese.

How would you feel if your country was under the iron fist of an enormous country who pranced around feeling superior (though not all British people were like this, this was how the Burmese saw the British government).

Reading this book provides a context to more famous works like Animal Farm and 1984, while also giving an overview of the themes of his other works like Burmese Days and Down and Out in Paris and London.

And it was past due time he went home to colder climes and the fat queen who wore a golden crown studded with jewels stolen from their lands.

This story is about one of the sunburned crew realising that yeah, he is a dickhead and reflecting on the leng.

But they knew, they just didnt know they could do anything about it, deprived of arms and government as they were.

In this case, he had to kill a mad elephant that he didnt want to or even seen the need to, but that was his role and elephant was their favourite food.

The satisfaction of forcing the white man and his gun to perform his self-defined role was one thing, but defining their own roles another.

Eventually though, revolution and independence became possible and then inevitable.

Well, actually not.

The British government has been trying to get its remaining outposts of empire to become independent since the mid-80s.

The whiter the populace (ie Falklands) the less hard they try and vice versa.

The Labour government actually gave all the rights of passport and settlement that these pale islands enjoyed to the darker ones, which was something).

The problem is that the non-independent islands are now in the position of power.

They are all self-governing and the UK is responsible for defence, helps out with major island maintenance via its roving ships, sends old books to the libraries and provides a good place of tertiary education for those that wish it.

The only irksome thing for the locals is having to have a meet-and-greet governor who generally lords it over everyone having gathered a coterie of cocktail-party going expats and rich, sycophantic locals around him.

But the main benefit is that our often thoroughly-corrupt politicians cannot change the political system and elect themselves dictator president-for-life.

So no one except the thoroughly-corrupt politicos actually wants independence.

Empire died. Britains cold and grey and poor, and we are sunny and warm and not too badly off.

We can come to the mother country and work, you cant come here without a work permit.

Karma. Great story.

Very short. As well-written as everything else by Orwell.

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