Shooting an Elephant- George Orwell In the essay, Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell illustrates his experiences as a British police officer in Lower Burma, and reflects it to the nature of imperialism. Since “anti-European feeling was very bitter” due to the British Empire’s dictatorship in Burma, Orwell is being treated disrespectfully by the Burmese . This allows him to hate his job and the British Empire. However, the incident of shooting of an elephant gives him a “better glimpse … of the real nature of imperialism – the real motives for which cruel government act”. Through his life experiences as a British man, Orwell efficiently demonstrates the negative effects of imperialism on individuals and society. With the usage of effective diction in his essay, Orwell excellently conveys his emotions and message to his readers. He often uses the word “natives” for the Burmese: “Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd”. By do

HATE- ARTHUR C. CLARKE Que.   Theme of the Story. Ans . This story is written by a prominent writer Arthur C. Clarke. He is a well known science fiction writer of America. The title itself suggests the theme of the story. It’s a story about hatred and how it goes away from the character‘s mind. In the beginning we can see the hatred but gradually at the end of the story it dosen’t remain. The main charcter if the story Tibor, a Hungarian, works as a pearl-diver. Tibor hates Russians because his loved ones were killed when the Russians invaded so, the Russians were hated by him. The setting of the story is Sea- Coast. Here we can also see the life of pearl- diver. How they have their own different world, different from land. In his dreams also Tibor has anger for Russians. The writer   has beautifully described the life of a Pearl-diver that Tibor thinks that down there on the seabed was wealth and death, and one could be sure of neither the chances we