How does the cultural conflict influence the narrator’s actions in “shooting an elephant”? the fear of appearing foolish to the burmese causes him to kill the elephant. the concern over british imperialism causes him to kill the elephant. the guilt over being british causes him to kill the elephant. the desire to be one of the burmese people causes him to kill the elephant.

During the time, there was issues with the imperialism of British over some other small town, this story is write to show how it work, how the narrator had to kill the elephant because it was what he was expected to do, however, he did not wanted to, this shows that the fear of appearing foolish to the Burmese causes him to kill the elephant.

not exaxtly

explanation: it depends on the situation like if u do something good there will be good consequences which arent punishments but if you do somthing bad there will be bad consequences which are punishements.