Shooting an Elephant

"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell

Orwell is known for masterful use of language; which section from the story people found especially engaging?

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I believe this question calls for your opinion. Which section "you" found most engaging. I've always found the following, an example of the horrors of oppression to be not so much engaging as emlightening.

"The stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long-term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been flogged with bamboos—all these oppressed me with an intolerable sense of guilt" (31).

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