Read the excerpt. In the end I could not stand it any longer and went away. I heard later that it took [the elephant] half an hour to die. Burmans were bringing dahs and baskets even before I left, and I was told they had stripped his body almost to the bones by the afternoon.

In “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, how long does it take for the elephant to die?

half an hour

half a day

a few seconds

a few minutes