Consider the term epiphany, which is a moment of clarity and understand. Is there such a moment in this story? If so, what triggers it?
Killing the elephant ultimately triggers Orwell's epiphany.
I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives," and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.
Shooting an Elephant
