Book title: Animal Farm Name: Yammy Ho
Author: George Orwell Class: 6s
Date: 2/05/2009 Class no.: 5
The story begins Old Major, who gathers all of the animals in the farm to tell them a dream that he has. He tells them about a society of only animals, they would run everything without humans. All animals like this idea and they sing a song called "Beasts of England" about their freedom. Three days after announcing his dream, Old Major dies. Two younger pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, put Old Major's ideas into a philosophy and they call it Animalism. Later, the animals beat Farmer Jones off of the farm and claim that the farm belongs to them, calling it "Animal Farm". Everyone works together and bring happiness to the farm. Snowball teaches the animals to read, and Napoleon educates a group of puppies on Animalism. In a little while, there is a struggle for power between Snowball and Napoleon. Snowball wants to build a windmill to produce energy for the animals, but Napoleon disagrees and gives command to the dogs to chase Snowball out of town. After that, Napoleon owns all power and begins to run the farm. He changes his mind about the windmill. They build it finally, but they find it topples over on the next day. Napoleon tells everyone that Snowball is the one who topples the windmill. So, anyone doesn’t follow the words of Napoleon would be with Snowball. Later on, Napoleon starts to act like a human. For example, he sleeps in a bed, wears clothes, drinks whiskey, walks upright, and even trades with the neighboring farms. On the other hand, other animals are now cold, hungry, overworked, and depressed. One day, Napoleon sits down with Farmer Pilkington for dinner, when the animals look through the window, they can’t tell which one is the pig and which one is the human.
