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Shooting an Elephant George Orwell A collection of eighteen essays by the author . Nineteen Eighty Four Animal Farm Abstract “Shooting an Elephant is one of the most popular of George Orwells essays. Like his essays “A hanging” and How the Poor Die”, it is chiefly autobiographical. It deals with his experience as a police-officer in Burma. After having completed his education, Orwell joined the Indian Imperial Police, and served in Burma, from 1922 to 1927, as an Assistant Superintendent of Police. His experiences as an officer in Burma were bitter. In the