He now found himself with yet another emotion to add to his mix, guilt was the emotion that would stay with him long after the hatred and bitterness had faded. dissipated. Orwell would begin to feel guilty for the act he had committed on the day of the elephant shooting. Guilt for being used as a puppet, Guilt for being bullied into committing such an act against his will, Guilt for what he had done! “In the end I could take it no more and left” (Orwell 330). The events of that day would lead Orwell to retire from the police force to become a writer, it was here that he shared the events of that fateful day and the shooting of the elephant. Over the years there have been many discussions regarding the act of shooting, some speak of it as fair and just, while others feel that it was a crime to shoot such an animal which is worth more that everything the elephant could have destroyed in its environment. path. However, in the end, it was Orwell's words that expressed it best: "I often wondered if any of the others understood that I had done it only to avoid looking like a fool." » (Orwell