Shooting an Elephant

I didn't like this story's beginning. I'm not a fan of government-like fiction unless the writer makes a way to help the reader understand the story. There was way too much Latin lingo. The story was very graphic when the elephant stumped the Dravidian man into the ground. It really starts to get too graphic describing the Dravidian's death. I've looked at most elephants as harmless, but I won't anymore. Now I would probably fear them as much as I would a tiger. I don't understand why the main character felt that he must shoot the elephant just because the natives expected that of him. All in all, I didn't enjoy this reading about a man killing an elephant to stop from looking like a fool. This story was overall depressing.