In George Orwell's “Shooting an Elephant,” he takes on the role of a Burma sub divisional police officer. Orwell takes on a job even though he dislikes and does not care not for the people he has to deal with. This can be seen throughout Orwell's essay in his word choice to describe the people, and his job, “I hated it more bitterly than I can perhaps make clear. In a job like that you …showed first 75 words of 1064 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1064 total…only white man there and already in a position of authority, he still wanted to be accepted by these “yellow faced” people. He talks so badly about them, but if he did not care, he would not have had such a hard time in his decision of whether or not to shoot the elephant. Instead of backing down from the ravaging mob, he should have stuck with his beliefs and stood up to the crowd.