Answer: See explanation
Explanation:
‘’Only today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like
pennies in a tin Band-Aid box". This is a simile.
The pennies simply refers to the emotions that are rattling inside Rachel. It simply helps us understand the age level or maturity level in a moment. The tone that it's trying to create is an anxious tone. Rachel's emotions are said to be bouncing within her as loudly as the pennies that are in a tin can.
<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>
