The Use Of Words In Shooting An Elephant By George Orwell

Did you notice that we lived in the world within words? Did you notice that there was even a personality in every single word? For instance, did you notice that a word changed its own meaning depending on its cohesion with other words, the tone and gestures we supported it, the context and the circumstances in which we used it? Did you notice that a word could even change its mood, depending on how we handled it?
In everyday life, we live in a world of words. There is no way to live without using any word for all day long. Throughout the day, we use words to say “Good morning!” to greet our family in the morning, to have a conversation with friends during the day, to deal with customers at work or even to play with a smartphone before

The hidden purpose can be inherent in words without discussing openly. Recently I have read the story Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell. I was impressed how masterfully he combined the words and created powerful descriptions for readers’ manipulation. In Orwell’s story, a reader may not understand the real purpose of the words which describe the death of the local man killed by the elephant: “I rounded the hut and saw a man’s dead body sprawling in the mud. He was an Indian, a black Dravidian coolie, almost naked, and he could not have been dead many minutes. The people said that the elephant had come suddenly upon him round the corner of the hut, caught him with its trunk, put its foot on his back, and ground him into the earth. This was the rainy season and the ground was soft, and his face had scored a trench a foot deep and a couple of yards long. He was lying on his belly with arms crucified and head sharply twisted to one side. His face was coated with mud, the eyes wide open, the teeth bared and grinning with an expression of unendurable agony.” (Orwell 2). At first, if we simply look at the words in these sentences, we will be able to visualize a vivid image of how the Indian man died. However, if we think over this abstract, we will not only imagine the vivid picture of the Indian man but also notice that the

Indeed, if we know how to use words properly and effectively, we can bring about a change in the outcomes positively. For instance, in the essay You Are What You Say Robin Tolmach Lakoff depicts what outcomes may occur when people use different words to ask for a favor. At first glance, five sentences which he provides as an example have the same direct meaning: a person asks somebody to close the