Animal Farm

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Animal Farm

        

Animal Farm was published on 17th August 1945 and written November 1943 – February 1944. It was written by George Orwell. He was born in 1903 in India. His first book was published in 1933 and this was called “Down and Out in Paris and London.” He wrote many other books for example “The Road to Wigan Pier”, “Homage to Catalonia”, “A Clergyman’s Daughter”, “Coming up for Air” and “Keep the Aspidistra Flying.” This story is a political allegory, which means that the animals stand for different people. It was also based on the Russian revolution, which had just happened.

        This story is about a rebellion. Old Major a pig was extremely old and he told the animals of a rebellion that would change all of their lives, he also taught them the song Beasts of England. A few nights later Old Major died but the cleverer animals on the farm the pigs took this into account and started organising things, Snowball, Napoleon and Squealer thought of a complete system which they called animalism.  On Midsummer’s eve Mr Jones the owner of Manor Farm ran away because he was so drunk. The rebellion came before the animals had least expected.  The animals burned everything that reminded them of Mr Jones even Mollie the white mare through her ribbons on the fire and Boxer put his straw hat on the fire which kept the flies out of his ears in the summer. The day after the rebellion the two (now called leaders) called every animal on the farm together. The name of the farm was changed from Manor Farm to Animal Farm and seven commandments were made and they were painted on the barn wall. The animals worked hard to get the harvest in and Boxer a horse and Benjamin his best friend a donkey worked the hardest. The pigs had learned to read and write so they taught all of the clever animals how to do this. In the late summer humans began approaching the farm but snowball had already come up with a plan to fight the humans away. The animals won this and called it “The Battle of the Cowshed.” As winter drew Mollie became more troublesome and three days later she disappeared, she had run away. Snowball had an idea to build a windmill and used the shed as his study. Napoleon had been

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secretly training Jessie’s puppies to be nasty so one day napoleon got these now full grown vicious dogs to chase Snowball off the farm so that he himself could be leader. Napoleon made it a if it was his idea all along to build the windmill and everyone started on this, again Boxer and Benjamin worked the hardest. It started that every Monday morning Mr Whymper a solicitor visited the farm.  A long time after when the windmill was almost finished the windmill fell down in a storm but it was all blamed on Snowball, everything that went ...

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