Compare And Contrast Shooting An Elephant By George Orwell

Mahmudul Alam
Prof. Cope
English 110
29th September 2015
Compare and contrast essay
In "shooting an elephant," Orwell's writes about Burma when it was a British colony.The story told by a first-person narrator who is a British policeman serving in Burma. His relationship with the Burmese natives wasn't that good; he was hated by everyone because he was a foreigner and a authority figure of white English society. The action of the story starts with a rogue elephant that has killed a Burmese man. The narrator finds the elephant standing peacefully in a field. He does not want to kill the elephant, but he knows the large crowd of people who have followed him to the field expect

him to kill it. He shoots the elephant several times. The animal is badly wounded but does not die. Finally, the narrator get emotional. He cannot stand any longer to watch the elephant suffer. Later, the man who owned the elephant protested its killing, but the narrator was not in legal trouble because the elephant had killed someone.
In “The Struggle To Be An All-American Girl”, by Elizabeth Wong, is about her childhood experience of wanting to be apart of a different culture. She is Chinese and wishes to be “an all american girl”. Her mother forced Wong and her brother, to attend a Chinese school so they can keep in touch of their culture and learn everything about it. Wong spoke highly of being American than being Chinese. She gave several examples explaining in full detail of the differences from her Chinese school and an all american school. For example the scent of the classrooms, the subjects that were taught in school, and ultimately, the language. Wong was crazy about the american culture, but her brother was even more thrilled about it than she was. He would constantly judge the way their mother spoke in English and would blame her for them not being excellent on the american language.