1. From the beginning of this essay Orwell's aim was never to shoot the elephant. In paragraph 3, lines eight to nine, he explains that he doesn't want to shoot him and talks about bringing the gun to scare the elephant. Leaving the gun at home or taking it with him would have made no difference to what ultimately happened. The gun was of little use, the main gun wasn't even his but the rifle.2. Orwell shot the elephant not to save the people of the village but for his own benefit. Fearing what people would think if he didn't shoot. In paragraph nine he evaluates the options of whether to shoot it or not. Reasoning that if he hadn't shot them and been trampled they would have laughed at his defeat. I am grateful that the coolie was killed so that I could shoot the elephant. Guilt would be easier to deal with since someone was killed. There was no need to shoot the elephant, when he thought about the owner who was coming and how the elephant's terror was already over, the only thing Orwell thought about was people laughing.3. The epiphany Orwell has is when the Indian coolie is killed. Realizing that this was his chance to not be laughed at by the Burmese people. It was a legitimate reason to kill the elephant. If this man had not been killed his conscience would have taken over and he would not have been able to do it. Just as in paragraph seven when he talks about the "white man who turns into a tyrant, destroys his own freedom". Being governed, everything he does now is not because he wants it but because it is expected of him.4. The Coolie man who was killed is Orwell's reassurance in killing this elephant. His reasoning for why everything he's about to do is okay. Whatever...... half of the paper ......cer he is.Language:1. In Orwell's statement, when he says the elephant is gone, from what I understand he is saying that after being domesticated for so long the elephant finally became chaotic and destroyed everything it could. For the first time to be free. The definition of musth is the frenzied state of some male animals. An example of this is elephants associated with the mating season. The musth variant better defines what happens to the elephant.2. Expressions used by Orwell that are not used by Americans are "who had been bogged down in the bamboos" and "he called me on the telephone", which are both British expressions. Orwell also uses many alternative spellings on common American words for this essay. When Orwell uses the "hyphen" he is using British English, where the definition of this is used to express mild annoyance.