The Elephant In The Village

This was an interesting piece. A short story about a man who takes his elephant up a mountain to a village that is home to the blind. The people spend their time inquiring about what exactly is in the village with them as they can hear the elephant eating and breathing and they can also smell him. The people of the village are confused and they begin to argue, compare and contrast. While reading this, I felt sorry for the blind people obviously, as they can't take in the greatness of nature and it's animals. I also looked at it similar to babies when they explore their new world. They crawl or walk around not sure about their surroundings. They feel, and smell and use their senses in order to determine whether or not there is a threat or not. Sometimes in doing this, you find out that sometimes your senses fail you as you think it is safe and then get hurt. Another way I view it is how some people look at other people. Sometimes you look at someone and try to judge based off of smell or sounds but you don't get to know the person and you make the wrong assumption. I don't know who exactly the author was targeting for their audience, but if I had to guess, it was for all walks of people. It makes people think about how they view certain things based off their senses, because sometimes senses can be misleading.