Before you finalize a topic, be sure that the story you tell will reveal something about yourself in the telling. Look at another section from Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” to see how the author reveals details of himself in the story: “I was young and ill-educated and I had had to think out my problems in the utter silence that is imposed on every Englishman in the East. I did not even know that the British Empire is dying, still less did I know that it is a great deal better than the younger empires that are going to supplant it. All I knew was that I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make my job impossible” (par. 2). He is brutally honest about his own ignorance and the frustration he feels in his situation. Because most narratives are written in the first person point of view, readers will expect you to use that form of narration to get the reader to feel and learn something about you.