Shooting the elephant

It was interesting to learn this essay "Shooting of an Elephant". At the very first sight of this story, I thought the story is about the hardship living in a country with a colonizer, maybe it is about the people who are oppressed by the colonizer. But then, after I read it further, I found that this story is based on a colonizer's point of view. I think it is kind of interesting because most of the time we can easily get hold of materials that are written to critisize the colonizer. For me, this is a different text all together. George Orwell actually tries to tell the readers the feeling of being the colonizer. From his point of view I get to know that, life as a colonizer is not so beautiful after all, there are some conflict in the story that make the author feel depressed.

All this while I thought that when a colonizers come to a certain country they are happy, because they are the one who take control of the country. But, in this essay everything seems so different, he feels that he is the one who is being pressured by the people. Maybe , this is the side of colonizer's view that we never thought of. Overall, I think reading this essay had broden up my view of what is the feeling of being a colonizer.