Shooting and Elephant

                                                Shooting an Elephant

     The use of form that was being used in this text is being used more formally writing. The writer uses formal writing because he’s just giving us the information of what is happening and what is going on in the scene/piece of writing. This whole text is also direct speech, such as saying “I got up” or “I fired a third time.” It was also spaced out, meaning that it was easier for the audience or reader to read, making it clear. This whole text is also being used in first-person views, such as using words “I”, referring to himself for example, ‘I got up.’ or ‘I waited a long time for him to die..’ which this whole thing is talking about himself, which somewhat can refer to an autobiography.

     The use of structure is used in a chronological order. The paragraphs that were used in the text were in chronological order, meaning that they matched up to what the rest of the text was going to say. The writer, George Orwell, uses long and complete sentences like a lot used in paragraph three that mostly with each sentence they give lots of lexis words and are descriptive a lot. By using long sentences it can pick up the speed of the text and can raise the drama that was put in this story. The structure gives a lot of descriptions of the person shooting the elephant. In each paragraph, it says how the person is feeling or what they’re doing such as, “When I pulled the trigger I didn’t hear the bang” or “I felt that I had go to put an end to that dreadful noise.” The use of structure in the paragraphs uses many imperative verbs. For example, “I fired again”, “I pulled the trigger”. By using imperative verbs in the paragraphs it gives a recollection of how the words are being used in a somewhat ‘bossy way’. As for the structure, we can also see that in paragraphs three and four that there are dashes, such as  “I dare say - he sagged slabbilt to his knees”. The use of dashes can give a more in-depth thought of what they were saying. It can mostly redefine what the writing was telling us, making it more clear for us to understand.

     The use of language in the text uses many verbs such as “paralyzed”, “fired”, “die”, “rise”, “kick”, “hear” and many more. These can describe the ways in which the elephant or the person shooting the elephant is doing it. The writer continuously uses repetition on “I”, which can give the audience an idea of what the person is doing, and who is doing it. The writer also uses imagery to tell us how the elephant or person is doing. As in paragraph three, it quotes, “for as his hind legs collapsed beneath him he seemed to tower upward like a huge rock toppling, his trunk reaching skyward like a tree”. The author also uses, “He looked suddenly, stricked, shrunken, immensely old,” to describe how the elephant is doing and how he used the word ‘paralyzed’ to describe how the elephant was doing slowly. The author also uses adjectives such as “falling” by giving an explanation of how the elephant is going down. As the text goes on, we can also see that there has been a use of nouns. Such as “the crowd”, explaining people, “rifle”, which can explain the object or ‘thing’ of the possession towards the person, and finally “The Burmans”, which can explain the place of where the story is taking place.