The Wife Beater By Gayle Rosenwald Smith - 1945 Words

The two short stories were both good, but different. â€Å"The Wife Beater† by Gayle Rosenwald Smith, has a very important message that was spoken out to all kinds of people, which is the undershirt known as the â€Å"wife beater† is not meant to be abusive to women or even men when women wear them, it is just suppose to be a shirt. â€Å"Shooting an Elephant† by George Orwell, was different in many ways, it kind of went back and forth. The police officer was an innocent man just doing his job, until an elephant came along and killed a man with his musth. Everybody was making a big deal about it, the group of people made the man shoot the elephant for the safety of everyone else, but the elephant was scared and not where he belonged. The police officer was pressured into something that should not of happened. Both short stories have a side to tell, but both are different. When reading these stories you start to think about the real world and if it is like that, t here are sides to every story being told just have to find out which ones the truth and how you relate to them. The two short stories, â€Å"The Wife Beater† by Gayle Rosenwald Smith, and â€Å"Shooting an Elephant† by George Orwell, were very different when it comes to control, reputation, and pressure. In â€Å"The Wife Beater† the men are in control over what it means to wear the shirt, but in â€Å"Shooting an Elephant† the officer is not in control because everyone around him. Then reputation in the â€Å"The Wife Beater† the men did care about it