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Animal Farm E.R.R

'' A great deal of modem writing is about unhappy, evil things.''

This relates closely to the novel 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell. The novel is about a group of animals who rebel against their cruel and evil owners. The animals succeed and two pigs called Napoleon and Snowball run the farm. The animals all look forward to a golden future on the farm but in the end the animals end up worse off than before the rebellion. George Orwell wrote this novel to show his disillusionment towards Russia and the events that took place there.

There were many evil events that took place in the novel but one of the worst ones was the way that Napoleon was treating the animals on the farm. Napoleon made the animals work a lot harder and for a longer period of time. The most hard working animal was Boxer on the farm. He did everything that he was told to do and he came up with a couple of slogans ' I will work harder ' and ' Comrade Napoleon is always right '. These slogans were inspirational to the animals on the farm, some of the animals even tried to adopt his sayings aswell.
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Another cruel act in the novel is that Napoleon kills all the animals that don't obey him or lie to him. When the hens refused to give up their eggs to Napoleon so that he could sell them, Napoleon ordered that the hens ration would be stopped till they give up their eggs. Most of the hens died because of starvation that Napoleon put upon them : ' Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. He ordered the hens rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving as much as a grain of corn to a hen should ...

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