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Which excerpt from the essay most clearly portrays the Burmese with negative connotations?

A. There were several thousands of [Buddhist priests] in the town and none of them seemed to have anything to do except stand on the street corners and jeer at Europeans.

B. The wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long-term convicts ... all these oppressed me with an intolerable sense of guilt.

C. And afterwards i was very glad that the [Indian] had been killed; it put me legally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant.

D. Theoretically-and secretly, of course - i was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British.

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Francesca Potter

6 April, 05:14

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Which excerpt from the essay most clearly portrays the Burmese with negative connotations?

A. There were several thousands of [Buddhist priests] in the town and none of them seemed to have anything to do except stand on the street corners and jeer at Europeans.

B. The wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long-term convicts ... all these oppressed me with an intolerable sense of guilt.

C. And afterwards i was very glad that the [Indian] had been killed; it put me legally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant.

D. Theoretically-and secretly, of course - i was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British.

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Martin Shelton · Answer 1

I would think it's A.

Christopher · Answer 2

The excerpt from "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell that most clearly portrays the Burmese with negative connotations is A. There were several thousands of (Buddhist priests) in the town and none of them seemed to have anything to do except stand on the street corners and jeer at Europeans. As a sub-divisional police officer of a British colony in Burma, he was hated by the Burmese people and insulted by most of the people. He is powerless to stop these indignities and says that the worst are the Buddhist priests who jeer all day at Europeans.