Comperation Essay, Loons and Shooting an elephant. PDF

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Racism is Like Smog in the Air Life is unfair. Most humans in this life with deprivation of their most basic rights and needs. Millions of children are deprived of their freedom and their rights in the world. The Loons story and Shooting an Elephant are a clear example of how colonization and discrimination destroy many people’s lives. Both stories show how people suffer from persecution and poverty under the ruling groups. The Loons tells the tale of two girls from different backgrounds, rich girl and poor girl and how their worldviews influence their lives in the end. Also, the second story is Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell serves as Moulmein's sub-divisional police officer, a town in Burma's British colony. As he's a military occupier, like the rest of the English, he's despised by most of the community. Also, the story shows The struggle between conscience and imperialism is one of the essential themes of "Shooting an Elephant" The narrator doesn't want to kill the elephant but the crowd is crying out to him to do so.

In Margaret Laurence "The Loons" what do the loons symbolize? The compassion of Vanessa's father for Piquette is closely connected with interpreting the core symbol of the storey: the loons. Vanessa's father draws attention to the loons and foretells their destiny: "we should listen and try to remember how they sound, because a few years when more cottages are built at Diamond Lake and more people come in, the loons will go away" (Laurence 69). The loons are no longer there after the death of the parent when Venessa visits the lake. Although symbolic of

Piquette- loons is synonymous with death and destruction, they are a symbol of Canada. The Loons disappeared as nature was rained by civilization. Similarity, Piquette and her people failed to find her position in modern society. One of Margaret Lawrence's themes underlined in The Loons is discrimination. His grandmother hesitates to welcome the young girl as Dr. MacLeod invites Piquette Tonnerre to their home in Diamond Lake, as she is half Indian and half French. On the other hand, Shooting an Elephant also shows racism, When we see the elephant in the paddy field grazing we see the naturalness of its life. The image of the Burmese dwelling as a labyrinth of thatch huts is likewise a picture of natural life. The role of the "white man" or the British empire clashes with this naturalness and destroys it bodily. In the manner in which Orwell's elephant shooting represents a sort of natural life violence, the killings of Burmese bodies and the colonial control of Burmese society do so.

What does the elephant symbolize when they kill an elephant? The elephant represents the central symbol of the storey. Orwell uses this to reflect colonialism's influence on both the colonizer and the colonized. Like a colonized population, the elephant has limited its independence, and it only becomes aggressively defiant as a reaction to being shackled. Orwell, a colonizer, feels equal ambivalence towards the elephant, just as he does towards the local Burmese. While he acknowledges that both are innocent and reasonable, and have experienced wrongs at the hands of others, he proceeds to perpetuate barbaric treatment of both, simply to maintain an arbitrary norm of colonial conduct. He kills the elephant simply because he knows if he fails to do so he will be embarrassed. “A white man mustn’t be frightened in front of “natives”; and so, in general, he isn’t frightened” (Par. 9). Colonial savagery is perpetuating itself in much the same way, precisely because colonists believe that if they behaved less inhumanly

they would appear weak or stupid. In the tale, Orwell further humanizes the elephant by referring to it with the pronoun "he," rather than "it. The Loons story. Cultural conflict is also a theme that appears in the novel. When Piquette goes to Diamond Lake she is not prepared to follow the white people's ways. Vanessa is nevertheless fascinated by Piquette and is willing to know about the Indian people's culture and ways. Despite helping with housework, Piquette refuses to participate in enjoyable activities connected to white people including swimming. Human degradation of the natural habitat of the loons symbolizes the attack made on the land of the Indians by the white people. The loons even have little interest in humans and Piquette because it seems they have stopped caring for other humans. She behaves indifferent towards her surroundings and we can not see her expressing any sincere feelings anywhere in the plot. At that time the British were in charge of Burma, the people of Burma were very hostile towards the British. George Orwell was so confused about killing the elephant. He suffered from the struggle between conscience and imperialism. In addition, shooting an elephant is an injustice toward the environment. On the other hand, The Loons are poignant at linking women's problems to the injustices that created the environment. There is also a correlation between violence against women and environmental inequality.As a result, humans have intentions and interests above everything. The Loons and the Elephant disappear because of humans.

Many of our decisions are influenced by people in our lives. Orwell blames the British and Burmese reaction for his issue, so it's regulated by the government system. Orwell is very selfish and savage just thinks about his job and his status as a police officer. The story of the

Loons can be seen through a post-colonial prism, and how indigenous people are forced to assimilate into white Canadian society to experience a sense of belonging. Besides, it reveals how indigenous lives are doomed if colonizers continue to marginalize their cultures and exploit them.

Work-Cited Orwell, George. “ Shooting an elephant” New writing. 1936. BBC Home. 1948. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdNs5Np2XJU

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Laurence, Margaret. A Bird in the House. McClelland and Stewart. 1970. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl&pli=1#inbox/FMfcgxwHMsXWdNxnzMjVbhl ZklMDzbkC?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1...