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Read the excerpt.
But I did not want to shoot the elephant. I watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees with the preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have. It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him. … It was perfectly clear to me what I ought to do. I ought to walk up to within, say, twenty-five yards of the elephant and test his behavior. If he … took no notice of me, it would be safe to leave him until the mahout came back.
What does the narrator in “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell think of the elephant when he finds it?
He thinks it will go on another stampede.
He thinks it must be put down.
He thinks it is no longer dangerous.
He thinks it needs to be retrained.
