"I had committed myself to doing it when I sent for the rifle. A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolut
e, to know his own mind and do definite things. To come all that way, rifle in hand, with two thousand people marching at my heels, and then to trail feebly away, having done nothing--no, that was impossible. The crowd would laugh at me. And my whole life, every white man's life in the East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at." In six to eight sentences, explain the dominant message of this passage and the methods the author uses to support the message.
The story is about "George Orwell's". He want to express his military life, when first time he got rifle in his hand. They were marching, and he was thinking like a normal guy as he just joined the Military, that what if... he does this or this? This expresses the fear, excitement, respect in his heart for his profession, and he loves it.
