Prompt: Using George Orwell’s Essay “shooting an Elephant” as a jumping off point, write an essay in which you present a personal experience that illuminates a larger issue: schooling, affirmative action, homelessness, law enforcement, taxes or some other local or national issue.
Remember that you must incorporate a summary and analysis of Orwell’s essay in your own essay in order to elucidate your point.  This is not strictly a personal essay.  While you are not writing an essay on British Imperialism, you must demonstrate an understanding of Orwell and how he uses a personal narrative to talk about a larger issue, which is in his case colonialism, and apply his method to your own essay.