Question

Which sentence from George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant is the best example of Orwell’s intentional use of irony?

a
“Early one morning the sub-inspector at a police station the other end of town rang me up on the phone and said that an elephant was ravaging the bazaar.”
b
“They had not shown much interest in the elephant when he was merely ravaging their homes, but it was different now that he was going to be shot.”
c
“I had almost made up my mind that the whole story was a pack of lies, when we heard yells a little distance away.”
d
“If he charged, I could shoot; if he took no notice of me, it would be safe to leave him until the mahout came back.”

Answer 1

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b

“They had not shown much interest in the elephant when he was merely ravaging their homes, but it was different now that he was going to be shot.”