Critical Response Essay

I class, we read a short story by George Orwell called Shooting an Elephant. It was a story about courage, judgment, and the pressure of peers. I personally did not like this story. I found it boring, pointless, and just another "hasn't -this -happened -to -you" story about nothing. However, it was very well written, and if I had to critically respond to this story, I would praise the author on a number of things.
The story opens by describing the relationship between the town and himself, a sort of sub-division police officer of the town. Description is definitely
not lacking in the opening, as words such as "aimless", and "petty" are used to describe the town, and the way it treats it officers. It describes
the kind of ignorance the town has to outsiders and anyone they do not "approve of". The story opens well, and clarifies right away, the who, what, where, when, why and how. No questions are asked and all confusions are quickly abolished.
The......

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Title: Critical Response- George Orwell's Shooting And Elephant
Approximate Word Count: 374
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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