Comments by NOAH COTTRELL Most recent public comments by NOAH COTTRELL https://nowcomment.com/users/92953 “After all the narrator knows that the crowd expects him to kill the elephant” 261 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108768 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108768 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:50:03 +0800 “ and indeed the crowd all anthropomorphize, attribute human characteristics, to the elephant” 261 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108764 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108764 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:49:22 +0800 “That of the humiliated Burmese in the Imperial jail, the “prostrate peoples” victimized by Empire.” 263 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108760 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108760 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:48:56 +0800 “Shooting the elephant depicts a cycle of resentment and violence”262 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108754 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108754 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:48:15 +0800 The narrator himself is a symbol for the people over whom, as a colonial policeman, he holds authority 257 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108742 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108742 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:47:34 +0800 “The personified elephant becomes a walking symbol of human nature put upon and deformed” 257 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108736 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108736 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:46:51 +0800