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Compare And Contrast Back To My Own Country And Shooting An Elephant

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Ashley Toledo Mrs. Zech English 12 Period 7 14 March 2023 Compare and Contrast Essay Oftentimes in stories authors relate to the same thing whether it has to do with a theme or a past event. Both “Back to My Own Country” and “Shooting an Elephant” discuss the classification of color. However, Levy’s essay talks about growing up differently than those of her color; whereas, Orwell’s short story talks about doing something because of peer pressure. In “Back to My Own Country” the author Andrea Levy wrote a narrative essay. She talks a lot about her early childhood and what it was like for her while growing up. She begins by saying “I remember a journey I took on a London bus when I was a young girl. It was the early nineteen sixties”(Levy 691). At this time in the world seeing someone of color wasn’t very common. She goes more into detail by providing the year and how she could tell the guy wasn’t from around that area. During this time people of …show more content…

In this essay he talks a lot about how he was disliked by a large number of people. He talks about being a “sub divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter”(Orwell 705). He feels like he doesn’t belong as well because he is European. However, he is later on forced to do something because of peer pressure unlike Andrea Levy’s story. He begins by saying “but I did not want to shoot the elephant”(Orwell 709). He had been watching this elephant for a while and it wasn’t currently disrupting the people. Causing him to not want to kill the elephant because technically it wasn’t causing any harm. He also talks about the worth of the elephant by saying “alive, the elephant was worth at least a hundred pounds, dead he would only be worth the value of his tusks, five pounds possibly”(Orwell 709). By him stating that observation it shows that if it were up to him he wouldn’t kill the

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