Sunday, February 12, 2012

Cocky and Funny George Orwell. FLI Writing 2/13


Cocky and Funny George Orwell. FLI Writing 2/13

I was told to never have a superior attitude over someone else in How to Win Friends by Carnegie and Solomon in Bible. Thus, I am sure some other wise proverbs tell same tales.

Reading the essay of George Orwell, I was a helplessly  smiling mutt amused by his British way of (black) humor. He remains in a position of self-imposed irony as some of his writings are so self-conflicting.

These Burmese yellow, as he puts it, is as amusing term as HOGs  they used to call it in Egypt for the natives. Just as Lawrence of Arabia, He remains cool and aloof superiority somehow heroic in his actions.

He is a well despised intruder but is a too amusing to be a serious threat, and perhaps a somewhat heroic unit for the natives.

Shooting the elephant was the merely symbolicof his status in his Burmese conquest and is proving the power of imperialism he abhorred very much..

He possess the authority and power to be special because he is a white Briton. He is after all, above the Burmese law and any rampage he is capable will be justified and compensated with imperialism’s power on his side.

Somehow pressured to entertain the silly yellows, he somewhat believes the actions of British evil.

George is a naughty writer and humorous in his approach to his audience. He is overcautious not to offend anyone including of Burmese.

That is all in all terrific but foolish and naughty story . It made amused so badly.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

George Orwell

For students in my class, please post your written response to George Orwell's essay, "Shooting an Elephant" by the end of Monday (2/13). I still want you to bring the paper copy of your response to Monday's class, though. Also, I want you to post comments to 2 of your classmates responses by Thursday's class.

Welcome!

Greetings. My name is Nick Clements and I am an instructor for the Yonsei University Foreign Language Institute. This is the blog for my IRE Advanced Writing Blog. You will find posts of our responses to various readings we are doing for the class.