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What it could symbolize today
Boxer
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Boxer symbolized the working class for Orwell. In Russia, worker worked hard and were very loyal to their leaders.
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Today's working class
USA
The Rebellion
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The animal revolution symbolized the Russian Revolution for Orwell. Both the animals and the people of Russia revolted against bad leaders.
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Libya
The Flag
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The flag symbolizes the USSR flag.
A symbol of freedom, American Flag?
Cockerels
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The cockerels are Boxers alarm clock, so he had to wake up early to do work.
My alarm clock (grrrr)
Animal Farm
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The book represented what happened in Russia from 1917 through 1945 and that all societies will become two separate classes.
My swim team is a lot like animal farm. You have the coaches (the pigs) then you have the swimmers (the working class). The coaches sit back and push us to work our arms and legs off.
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Articulate : 1. Uttered in distinct syllables 2.capable of speech
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Repose: 1. The act of resting, or being at rest 2. Being at peace
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Imposing: impressive
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Accord: 1. To agree or be in harmony 2.To bestow upon

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Questions for chapters 1 and 2

1. The animals are behaving like animals by: living in a barn, eating straw and sugercubes, etc. They are acting like humans by: talking and holding grudges.
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2. Old Major's speech impacts the animals by making them want to rebel.
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3. The assumptions this statement makes is that people are evil and animals are good.
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4. The animals are easily led by the pigs because they think the pigs are smart and they are easily minipulated.
5. The ribbons were given to Mollie to show that she was like a pet.
6. After the rebellion, at first, the animals were happy then they learned that they had to work.
7. The 7 commandments spcificially say that all humans are evil.
8. Animalism and marksisn are a lot alike by they bolth are supposed to have everything shared and equal.
9. The farm could have been a perfect place for a utopian community because all the animals could have worked together to be happy.

Questions for chapters 3 and 4

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Questions for Chapters 5 and 6

1. Molly is rejected by the other animals because she never works and she let a human pet her.
2. Snowball and Napoleon fight about the windmill.
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Jone's Rule
Napoleon's Rule
*Small rations
  • Lots of hard work
*Small rations
  • Tons of work
4. Obediance and loyalty have replaced freedom and bravery because the animals now have to do everything their told or else the dogs will hurt them.
5. I believe that Squeeler is using propaganda because he is purswading the other animals that Napoleon is right.
6. I think that Boxer's motto shapes his character by making him seem that he will do any amount of work.
7. Napoleon establishes credit for the wind millby saying that it was all his idea and that Snowball stole it from him.
8. Napoleon starts sleeping in a bed, the animals are forced to accept this because Napoleon is bending the rules in a way that they cant argue.
9. Napoleon uses the word tactics to make him seem smart.

Questions for Chapters 7 and 8

1. Napoleon is making everything seem fine by making fancy speeches and telling the animals that they are prospering.
2. The hens wont get any food.
3. The memory of Snowball is used to keep the animals in line by if they are friends with Snowball, they will be killed.
4. Napoleon scares the other animals so that he can have more power.
5. Clover sings the Beast of England after the executions because she doesn't think the animals are free anymore, I think that this sais that she is intelligent and cares about the animals.
6. Napoleon says that he bans Beasts of England because they no longer need to sing it. The real reason is that he is afraid the animals will rebel.
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8. Comerade Napoleon makes Napoleon seem like a super hero.
9. In the Battle of the Windmill, it was harder for the animals to win and it took a large toll.

Chapters 9 and 10

1. Stated purpose: to make everything seem fine
Real purpose: to keep the animals from wanting to rebel
2. Napoleon allows Moses to come back because he realize that it's better for tthe animals to believe that they will go somewhere better.
3. All of the animals respect Boxer because he is the hardest worker of them all. They believe that his is sent to veterinary clinic, but he is actually sent to the Knackers.
4. The knacker symbolizes execution?
5. Lower class and upper class, they separated because some just turned onto richer animals.

Thought Questions # 7-13

7. I think the leader should not make all the decisions for the group because the leader makes decisions to uplift themselves.

8. The pigs moved into the house with little fuss by telling the other animals that they are the ones that really work the hardest and kept the farm going so they deserved more then the rest of them.

9.No one complained when the pigs got to sleep in because the animals were threaten by the dogs and what the pigs would do to them if they objected.

10. Napoleon knew that snowball had destroyed the windmill because supposedly he could smell them.

11. Clover thinks thing are better then they were when Jones was there because shes just happy that they're free from humans and did the work for themselves.

12. Boxer works so hard because first of all he likes to work and second of all he wanted to please everyone like the pigs and the rest of the animals.

13. Utopia in this book was represented by Beasts of England and Old Majors speech. The image of what they wanted for a society at the beginning of the book changed throughout the book because of the pigs.