Shooting an Elephant

Reader Response: Shooting an elephant

The Indian culture in one of the many cultures in the world in which the elephants are truly important for the survival of those that own them. In this story the victim can be said that it was the elephant and the irresponsibility of the owner of that elephant. The irresponsibility of the owner of failing to make sure that his elephant was secured caused a tragedy and made possible the assassination of the elephant at the hand of a British police officer in India. The part that most people would not understand and cannot be justified is at the reason for killing the elephant was because the police officer was tired of being mocked by the Indian people. This problem leads us to the main problem in which legally the police officer was pin the justified enough to not be in any real trouble, because the elephant must be put down if the owner could not control it, just like it happened, but in a morality stand point he only killed that elephant for selfish reasons, and only putting what other will say and think about him, even though some of the Indian people who were experienced with this kind of behavior knew and told him that the “must” was passing and that he was calming.

The problem that personally I had with the actions taken was that they were made for himself and not for the “security” of other people like it was suppose to. His actions were not justified at all, even though the elephant killed a person, the Indian people knew about this kind of phenomenons, and some of them know the basics of what to do in this situation, like maintaining a reasonable distances between the animal and themselves. Although some of the actions were inevitable, the actions taken by the Indian people were not correct either, because amassing in large groups running behind an elephant which is in a frenzy state does not help the situation. Because the animal might think that is being attacked, taunting, laughing and treating the grave situation as a festive thing did not help the