[ASMR] Shooting An Elephant - George Orwell - Narrated By Jules Burt - Audiobook

[ASMR] Shooting An Elephant - George Orwell - Narrated By Jules Burt - Audiobook

In today's video, I narrate a superb short story as written by George Orwell and published back in 1936. In this story, Orwell recounts the time in Burma when he is forced, against his wishes, into shooting an elephant.
This is one of my favorite short essays of Orwell's. I do hope you find it interesting, enjoyable and relaxing.

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[silverbanana]

I have fairly severe ADHD and OCD that quite often makes reading difficult. Audiobooks tend to make completing and retaining the information from literature much easier for me. I don't have to come back and re-read it a million times. I came across this video while searching for an audio version of this essay, as I am needing to write a rhetorical analysis for one of my college courses. I found that many of the readings of this were either difficult to understand, cost money, or were just poorly done. Your voice, cadence, and rhythm is PERFECT for this! I was easily able to listen, follow along, and understand the content. I'm rambling--but just wanted to leave a comment to say thank you. I'm a bit sad to find that you don't have too many more of these readings. I've subscribed in case you do (your other content also looks great, too)! You are helping this wary millennial navigate academia after over a decade from the last time I was in school. I hope this comment brightens your day a bit, because your reading brightened mine! Cheers x

[rexx]

Great idea Jules. You have the perfect voice for narrating interesting short stories. Sounds like really good niche!

[johnbowles]

Fascinating story, thanks for reading this. It makes one think about how many times in life we make decisions not based on what we want to do, or even what we should do, but rather because people expect it of us. Peer pressure can be a very powerful driving force.

[Bloo_Scops]

Thank you for this. It would often take me an hour or two to read something of this length. But thanks to you, I was able to listen and follow along with no trouble. :)

[mrdeyonke]

I'm so excited to listen to this tonight. I've been waiting for you to read us a story for a long time. Certainly with your amazing book collection you can find some titles to treat us!

[sylvanyoung]

My first intro to Orwell was as a kid with Animal Farm...a " fun " animal story...later i saw that it was a bitting satire..This is a sad story. Is there some deeper meaning here...? Thanks, your voice did justice to the tale..Kipling is another of my faves

[Palladia]

Thank you so much! If you allow me, I will share this with my students since they are working with this story :) Thanks again!

[p.m.s.]

Good choice of story. Men's adventure with a conscience.

[jasonjames]

You could do a whole channel of this stuff

[mrdeyonke]

Came back to listen to this one again tonight. I'm still waiting on the next story you read, something sci fi or even horror perhaps?

[Fakaa]

I'm watching your videos with eating chips 😋, it's so fun to hear with eating

[ratbagley]

Well, that was sad. Interesting though. Well narrated, thanks.

[nishilbhartiya]

Great narration. A really controversial story, but typical archaic British mindset about the coolie's death. Real shame about the elephant too as I'm pretty sure this is a true story. But amazing job in your part!