Solutions to Problems

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Solutions to Problems George Orwell was born in 1903 and passed in 1950. In 1945 he published Animal Farm, a satirical fable attacking both fascism and communism. He is the author of, Shooting an Elephant, where the problem of an out of control elephant must be shot by the town police in Burman. Later the police sees that the elephant has calmed down and he doesn’t want to shoot it, but all the town people still are expecting him to. Doris Lessing was born in 1919, she is the author of, No Witchcraft for Sale, which is set in the two decade times of British control, when two different cultures had to live together. The problem in the story is that the African American cook of the European family heals the young boy when he gets a snake bite. When a big doctor comes to town to find out about the medication, the African American man will not show them what plant it was. Both stories encounter a problem in two different times and cultures. In this essay, two solutions for both stories, Shooting an Elephant, and No Witchcraft for Sale, will be introduced and explained. ...

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