<span>As he looks back at the events narrated in "Shooting an Elephant," Orwell admits that he shot the elephant because he did not want to appear foolish or weak in front of the crowd.
Orwell realized that he had been compelled to shoot the elephant because of his position as a colonial military officer. With a Burmese audience watching, he felt obligated to shoot the elephant and uphold his place in the colonial system, even though he did not particularly care to shoot the elephant.</span>
<h2> ☞ANSWER☜</h2>
<em><u>Komorebi roughly translates as “the scattered light that filters through when sunlight shines through trees”.</u></em>
<h2> ☞EXPLANATION☜</h2>
Komorebi, the Japanese expression for the sunlight as it filters through the trees, is made up of the kanji characters for tree (木), shine through (漏れ), and sun (日).
