Summarization of animal farm chapters 1-10

CHAPTER 1 In the opening chapter of the book, Mr. Jones of Manor Farm is shown as a careless, irresponsible farm owner who cares more for a glass of beer than for his animals and the farm. He is often drunk, and his resulting carelessness causes the farm animals to protest and rebel against him. A 12-year-old middle white boar 'Old Major', who lately grown stout and majestic looking pig with a wise benevolent appearance had called a meeting in the barn about a dream he had the previous night. First arrived the dogs; Bluebell, Jessie and Pitcher and then the pigs came in with the hens and pigeons that flew on top. Soon the sheep's, cows and the carthorses Boxer and Clover had came into the barn. Then came Muriel the white goat and Benjamin the donkey, who was the oldest animal on the farm. Ducklings came in with Mollie the foolish, pretty white mare. Only one left was Moses the tame raven. Old Major started his speech on how the animals were treated and were being used. He said, 'the farm was in a terrible condition and there is not much money for a good lifestyles. In addition the farm only has 12 horses, 20 cows and 100's of sheep. The problem was that man exists. Man consumes without producing. Old Major talked about what happened to the babies of the animals. There was a message in all of this 'whatever goes on two legs is an enemy, but whatever is upon

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Chapter's 7 - 10 Summary of Animal Farm.

Chapter Seven: Summary A hard winter comes, and the animals face near-starvation. To hide the food shortage from the outside world, Napoleon fills the grain bins with sand to fool Mr. Whymper. He also plants several animals at strategic locations during Mr. Whymper's visits so that he can hear them making "casual" (and false) remarks about food surpluses and increased rations. Napoleon announces the plan to sell a pile of timber to one of two neighboring farmers, Mr. Frederick or Mr. Pilkington. At Napoleon's bidding, Squealer announces that the hens will have to give up their eggs to be sold for money to buy grain. The hens refuse at first, but Napoleon cuts off their food rations until they relent, after nine of them have died from starvation. All sorts of acts of mischief and vandalism begin to surface, which are immediately attributed to Snowball. Soon after, Napoleon announces that an attempted rebellion has been discovered, and has several of the farm animals executed. The remaining animals react with fear and horror, and huddle around Clover the mare for comfort. She reminds them of Old Major's glorious speech and leads them all in "Beasts of England," which prompts Napoleon to forbid the singing of the song and replace it with the song "Animal Farm, Animal Farm, never through me shall thou come to harm". Chapter Eight: Summary The animals discover that after the

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Animal Farm

Draft During chapters 7-10 Orwell goes to great lengths to show sympathy for the animals in animal farm. He achieves this by using different techniques which I am going to show you. George Orwell based Animal Farm on the Russian revolution which occurred many years beforehand. Orwell tries to make us feel pathos for the animals to show what the Russian revolution was like for the people affected by it. In chapters seven to ten the animals have to work harder than ever and one wrong move would take them to the chopping board. One quote which stands out for classical satire of the Russian revolution is "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS." (Chapter 10, pg. 112) This quote makes people feel pathos for the animals because they would think that they were only on the farm to serve Napoleon and build windmills whilst the pigs whop were obviously better off just lazed around or did less of the work. The animals blamed their faulty memories for forgetting the commandment. At this point the animals would probably feel that they were hard done by in the reign of napoleon. Orwell has done well to create pity for the animals here. "The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally" (Chapter 10, pg. 107) this quote is written by the pigs who lived the best lives whilst doing the exact opposite, the animals would feel that they would

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Using chapters 7-10 as evidence, examine ways in which Orwell creates sympathy for the animals in Animal Farm, and explain why he gives the novel an unhappy ending.

Jamie Buckler 9S Using chapters 7-10 as evidence, examine ways in which Orwell creates sympathy for the animals in Animal Farm, and explain why he gives the novel an unhappy ending. In this essay I am going to explain ways in which George Orwell makes us feel sorry for the animals in Animal Farm. Orwell uses specific techniques to make us feel sympathy for the animals in the story. I will also explain why Orwell decides to give the novel an unhappy ending. At the start of chapter seven, as soon as you start to read the first two sentences, "It was a bitter winter. The stormy weather was followed by sleet and snow, and then by a hard frost which did not break 'till well into February," it makes you feel the pain the animals are going through. When Orwell says, "followed by" it makes you feel the animals are just getting more bad weather after more bad weather, and it is getting very hard for them. "...Animals had nothing to eat but chaff and mangels." This makes you feel sorry for the animals because they are working very hard anyway, to try and rebuild the windmill, as well as having very cold and bitter weather. The pigs take all the food but did no work, and the animals that did the work were getting no food. "The hens...must surrender their eggs...this sacrifice might be necessary." This makes you feel sorry for the hens because they have to give up their eggs

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Chapters 6 and 7 Answers

Animal Farm Miscellaneous Questions On Chapters 6 and 7 Chapters 6 and 7 Questions and Answers (1) How much work are the animals now doing? (The animals still believe they are working for themselves. Although they already work a 60-hour week during spring and summer, Napoleon informs them that they can volunteer for Sunday afternoon work, as well. However, any animal not volunteering will have his rations cut in half.) (2) Why does Napoleon decide to engage in trade with neighboring farms? (Because certain items such as paraffin oil and dog biscuits are in short supply, Napoleon decides to sell a stack of hay and part of the wheat crop. Later they may have to sell some of the hens' eggs.) (3) How do the animals react? (They are troubled and think they remember a resolution against trade with humans. Four young pigs try to protest but are silenced by the dogs' growls and the sheeps' bleating of the slogan, "Four legs good, two legs bad." Squealer later explains the decision and asks if they have seen such a resolution written down, but no such record is found.) (4) How is the windmill destroyed? Why does Napoleon blame Snowball? (A violent November storm blows it down. Instead of admitting that the windmill's walls were not thick enough to support it against a strong wind, Napoleon blames Snowball for blowing it up. Since Snowball had drawn up the plans, the blame for

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Animal Farm

Level 2 Access/GCSE Communications Animal Farm Chose three chapters in the fable where you think the author's use of satire helps us to: * Understand the writers purpose * Understand what is happening in the novel * Understand and appreciate the 'characters' more fully * Appreciate the writers skill * Understand why he used a fable form rather than a novel Animal Farm was written by George Orwell in 1943, yet due to political sensitivity, not published until 1945. The novel is written as an allegory of communist Russia. In consideration of Russia being an ally of the British at this time one can understand the reluctance of many publishers to participate in its distribution. The story is set on an English farm and the animals on the farm are used as characters intended to represent prominent figures in the Soviet Union. The story centres around a revolution undertaken by the animals in order to oust the farmer, Mr Jones, and gain freedom from oppression and hardship. How the story unfolds relates directly to Orwell's profound disillusionment with revolutionary politics, human nature and our overwhelming need to dominate and suppress. The principle characters in this book are Napoleon, Squealer, Snowball and the pig population. Napoleon represents Stalin and remains the most powerful force through out the story. Squealer is used as a means of propaganda directed

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Animal Farm Background

"Animal Farm" Theme and Background The story of "Animal Farm" has an immediate impact. It witnesses how good intentions, self sacrifice and idealism can fall prey to viciousness. It is a story if idealism crushed and betrayed, but alone all it is a story of disillusionment. With the assumption of authority Napoleon & Snowball goes an assumption of greater power. The pattern continues throughout the story until finally Napoleon, who has become a brutal and callous dictator, usurps all power and privilege, and the other animals become fearful & deprived nonentities. The moral of the story at this level is the old saying that power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely everything. If we look at "Animal Farm" at another level Fredericks: Stands for Hitler. There has also been an arrangement and secret deals. (Allusion to Fritz.) Foxwood: Foxwood farm represents England. Pinchfield: Pinchfield symbolises Germany. Destruction of the Windmill: This destruction is a symbol for the failure of the Five Year Plan. Protagonist · There is no clear central character in the novel, but Napoleon, the dictatorial pig, is the figure who drives and ties together most of the action. Farmhouse: The Jones' farmhouse represents in many ways the very place where greed and lust dominate. Unlike the barn, which is the fortress of the common man, the genuine concept of

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Animal Farm.

Animal Farm Context George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair, a British political novelist and essayist whose pointed criticisms of political oppression propelled him into prominence toward the middle of the twentieth century. Born in 1903 to British colonists in Bengal, India, Orwell received his education at a series of private schools, including Eton, an elite school in England. His painful experiences with snobbishness and social elitism at Eton, as well as his intimate familiarity with the reality of British imperialism in India, made him deeply suspicious of the entrenched class system in English society. As a young man, Orwell became a socialist, speaking openly against the excesses of governments east and west and fighting briefly for the socialist cause during the Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939. Unlike many British socialists in the 1930s and 1940s, Orwell was not enamored of the Soviet Union and its policies, nor did he consider the Soviet Union a positive representation of the possibilities of socialist society. He could not turn a blind eye to the cruelties and hypocrisies of Soviet Communist Party, which had overturned the semifeudal system of the tsars only to replace it with the dictatorial reign of Joseph Stalin. Orwell became a sharp critic of both capitalism and communism, and is remembered chiefly as an advocate of freedom and a

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Animal Farm

Animal Farm "All revolutions are failures, but they are not the same failure," (George Orwell). Describe what led up to the rebellion and how it failed. George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) wrote Animal Farm. He was born in India, 1903, educated at Eton. After working with the imperial Police in Burma, he came to Europe to earn his living by writing novels. He was a political writer who wrote of his own times. He was also interested in war and human nature. Animal Farm was published in 1945. It is a political fable but also an allegory based on Joseph Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution. It is set in a farmyard. Throughout this book, he exposed through the animals the human nature and their desires. Orwell's health was deteriorating and he died of tuberculosis in January 1950. George Orwell said 'All revolutions are failures, but they are not the same failure,' failure is an important word because it is the main theme in the book. There are many factors that led the rebellion to fail, such as, misplaced trust, power, greed, lack of education, jealousy. In this essay, I will discuss these factors and the way Orwell explores the failures of revolution, but first I will discuss why the rebellion happened because you cannot rebel without a reason. Old Major's speech is the main source that leads the other animals on the farm to rebel for freedom. His speech is very

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How does Orwell tell the story in Chapter 10 of Animal Farm?

James Clyburn How does Orwell tell the story in Chapter 10 of ‘Animal Farm’? In the final chapter of Orwell’s satirical novel of indirect political attack, the story is drawn to the inevitable conclusion. Throughout the novel Orwell has hinted that the equality promised in the beginning of the story will not be delivered. We see the pigs finally commanding absolute power and dictatorship over the farm and becoming ever similar to their human ‘colleagues’. It is the fact that the humans have become their colleagues instead of their superiors (as is the case on every other farm in England), which is the pivotal moment of the novel. This acquisition of power over the rest of the animals is shown by the fact that six of the animals’ principle Seven Commandments have been erased, in favour of just one – “All animals are equal”. However, the addition of “but some animals are more equal than others” as discovered by Benjamin, makes all the difference. This is the first outright claim that Orwell makes which directly shows the pigs seizing superiority. Throughout the novel, the reader sees the proceedings from the animal’s point of view. Chapter 10 of Animal Farm really shows us the power of this narrative technique. Although it seems to the animals that “their life, so far as they knew, was as it always had been” - they remain naïvely hopeful to

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