My Analysis On The Passage "Excerpt Form Shooting An Elephant"

When I was analyzing this text it was very easy to understand the form, structure and language. It seems that the form of the text is a story since the fact that it doesn't state anywhere in the text that it was based on a true story, or any other document along those lines. The structure of the text was set in chronological order, the reason that I say that is due to the fact that the story is developing throughout the story excerpt form shooting an elephant. The type of language that is used to route the passage is very exquisite but an example is when they use modal verbs; they are auxiliary verbs that can demonstrate necessity. The verde include should, would, could, can and so on. 

Stated in the previous paragraph we went over a brief idea of the form in the text. A form that was illustrated in the document excerpt form shooting an elephant, it is a story. The reason I say the form is a story is due to the fact that it doesn't have any documentation of it being based off of a true story or along those lines. The reason why I say it is a story and not another source of documentation is due to the fact, besides the reason that was stated in the previous sentence but also because it develops over time; the storyline. An example of this is in the beginning it states that “it was perfectly clear to me what I ought to do. '' This is the very first sentence in the beginning and it doesn't give any background before starting with this sentence, that plays a part in why it is in the form of a story. 

Now for the structure that was talked about in the very first paragraph in this blog, we scrape the top of what the structure was in the text excerpt form Shooting an Elephant. What was talked about in the first paragraph about structure was that it was in chronological order. This means that as the story is progressing the author or the narrator is explaining in each separate paragraph what is happening next. To expand on that it entails what is happening as time is going on throughout the story. A few examples of that is when in the first paragraph he is only talking about if he should shoot the elephant or not. “I ought to walk up within say, twenty-five yards for the elephant in test his behavior.” In the second paragraph he focuses his structure on the gun and how it is made. “The rifle was a beautiful German thing with crosshairs sights.” But skipping to the last paragraph the author begins to expand and talk about the death of the elephant and what he has to do and how he died. “it seemed dreadful to see the great beast lying there, powerless to move and yet powerless to die…” and “in the end I could not stand it any longer and went away ” this is the structure that is produced throughout the story. The structure can be defined as the bold of a story or documentary or article. 

The last one that was brought up in the very first paragraph was language. The type of language that I will be talking about that has been said throughout the passage or modal verbs. Modal verbs are verbs that indicate likelihood and express possibility. Examples of modal verbs that are just used in general not aiming towards the passage for say are “can/could” “may/might” “”should/shall '' and so fourth. Some examples that were used throughout the passage excerpt form shooting an elephant were “could” “lay” “should'' and “still” these are just ones that I could name off the top of my head that were from the passage but I am sure there are many more modal verbs that you could find in the passage. 

These were just some key points that I focused on when reading the passage and that I could really define throughout my blog. When analyzing these are the most looked for in  passages, that's the reason why I focused on these three points.