Verbal Ability - Comprehension - Discussion
Discussion Forum : Comprehension - Section 2 (Q.No. 3)
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But I did not want to shoot the elephant. I watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees, with the preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have. It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him. I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to. (Somehow it always seems worse to kill large animal.) Besides, there was the beast's owner to be considered. But I had got to act quickly. I turned to some experienced-looking Burmans who had been there when we arrived, and asked them how the elephants had been behaving. They all said the same thing; he took no notice of you if you left him alone, but he might charge if you went too close to him.
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The author did not want to shoot the elephant because he
Discussion:
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Clerence Mogale said:
1 decade ago
The line ''I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to''. It suggests that the author has an inexperience of killing animals like an elephant, so killing an elephant will be a murder to him. B is my answer.
Gavy aujla said:
1 decade ago
The line, "I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to". It shows that he is inexperienced in killing elephants and it also states that he has killed animals, that is, he is not inexperienced.
Janakiram said:
1 decade ago
"I had never shot an elephant" It suggests that he might have no experience. So, I agree with the answer.
Vikram said:
1 decade ago
I think it's C because the lines "It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him. I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to. " shows that he was more considerate. His inexperience is just a secondary reason why he's not shooting the animal.
GPCASRK said:
1 decade ago
The answer is to be C because the author tells in the paragraph.
" I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to. (Somehow it always seems worse to kill large animal. ) " it shows that he had no experience to kill large animals.
" I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to. (Somehow it always seems worse to kill large animal. ) " it shows that he had no experience to kill large animals.
Rahul said:
1 decade ago
The very first line clearly indicates that the author doesn't want to kill the elephant and the last two lines show that the elephant was not doing anybody any harm. According to me, author was more concerned about the nature of the elephant than his experience, so, he did not want to shoot the elephant. OPTION-C.
Shivangi said:
1 decade ago
According to me the correct is C. The sentence "And never wanted to" makes this very clear.
Pradyumn said:
1 decade ago
" It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him."
from above statement answer should be C
from above statement answer should be C
NAMITA said:
1 decade ago
Answer should be B. Since it is not mentioned in para about killing animals which are not doing any harm. So by our own we can't assume option c. But he felt it is worse to kill large animal (given in para). So the correct option is only B.
Maksud said:
1 decade ago
There is mentioned " i had never shot an elephant". From this statement i come to know that author has experienced of hunting animals but he didn't hunt of big animals like an elephant. So ans. come into my mind is b)
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