Which excerpt from George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant best exemplifies a reflective essay? A. “There was a loud, scandalized cry of ‘Go away, child! Go away this instant!’ and an old woman with a switch in her hand came round the corner of a hut…”
B. “We began questioning the people as to where the elephant had gone and, as usual, failed to get any definite information.”
C. “The Burmese sub-inspector and some Indian constables were waiting for me in the quarter where the elephant had been.”
D. “It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism…”