Shooting an Elephant Questions

Question 1:
The story “Shooting an Elephant” surrounds a British officer on patrol in Moulmein, Burma. The story consisted of two disparate themes: tension of colonial rule over the Burmese people and conforming to peer pressure. These two themes are intertwined through the British officer, who was a lukewarm supporter of British control of the Burmese people. He resented the British control of the Burmese people, but unfortunately the Burmese people stereotyped him as a British supporter for colonialism and had shown great resentment to him throughout the period he served as an officer in Burma.
The author chooses to intertwine these two themes through an incident where an elephant manages to free itself from its restraints and goes on a rampage after being stricken with must. The officer spends the day tracking the elephant down. And after a while finds the elephant in a field, after its bloody rampage, eating grass serenely in the field. He had planned to just watch the elephant after he found it but he had drawn great attention from the Burmese people when he had called for a large hunting rifle. Now with a large crowd of people behind him, he felt the will of the people behind him to shoot the elephant. And conforming to the peer pressure, he shot and killed the elephant. This bending to the will of the Burmese may have been due to the theme of resentment of British control. Both he and the people resented British control yet the people also hated him for he was a British officer who enforced British control. So wanting a chance to prove himself to the Burmese he bent to their will and shot the elephant.
Question 2:
He revealed unflattering details by first stating what he should have done versus what he did. Then prior to telling the reader what he did he gives an explanation of the precarious situation he was in and his reasoning for why he made the choice he did. For example: “But at that moment, I glanced round at the crowd that had followed me. It was an immense crowd, two thousand at the least and growing every minute…They did not like me, but with the magical rifle in my hands I was momentarily worth watching. And suddenly I realized that I should have to shoot the elephant after all” (Orwell 224). Finally he admits the blunder: "But in all reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yelleow faces behind" (224).