Animal Farm Chapter 2

On the first hunt, the boys failed to slaughter a pig, but still know that, “Next time there would be no mercy.” Then, to assure the group had the idea even clearer, “[Jack] looked around fiercely, daring them to contradict” (P.31). The boys, Jack specifically, have a mutual understanding that sparing the pig was a setback for their ultimate survival. Shortly after hunting, and succeeding, the boys return with a pig shouting “‘Kill the pig. Cut her throat.

They worked with the dogs in herding the pig towards the nobleman. The pig was enraged, the hounds were darting in for a quick nip before the pig could swing around its ponderous size and try to gore them with its short horn. Once there the pig saw that there was an opening with only the nobleman guarding it, it made a dash for it. It lowered its head, intending to ram its way to freedom with its horn leading the way. The nobleman was an experienced one so he almost lazily set his spear, point it at the charging pig.

The pig was causing a lot of chaos. They took it to a nicer hotel where they stayed, and it completely destroyed the hotel room. They then had to pay for the

As several of the boys are hunting the beast, they repeat the ritual with Robert as a stand-in for the pig; this time, however, they get consumed by a kind of “frenzy” (Golding 114)

Chapter 1 and 2 1. At this point of the novel, I feel a little curious as to where the story is going to go. I must say, I am a little confused on how the animals are planning on going though with their plans. 2. I can think of ways I have felt like these animals do in the story.

When the animals looked outside they no longer recognized their surroundings and leaders. The had realized that they have been blind and could no longer tell the difference between man and pig. They had become indifferent. This was said by the narrator yet really explains the thoughts going through all the animals on the farm’s heads except the pigs.

However, the animals have reached the point where they need someone to dictate what they should do next. Both Snowball and Napoleon have different ideas on what the animals should do to better their lives. They start an election to see which of the pigs will become the leader of Animal Farm. All of the animals picked one of the candidates, except Benjamin, who is the oldest and wisest animal on the farm. Benjamin did not believe that either of the actions proposed by the pigs would make life on the farm any easier.

The old pig sparks rebellion against the Mr. Jones due to their beliefs that humans are a threat as they use the animals for their own consumption and benefit. As time passes reframing is also shown in chapter 5 when Napoleon turns his back on Snowball because of their constant disagreements. After the dogs successfully chased off Snowball, Squealer states that Snowball was a traitor and in reality no better than a criminal; lying for the benefit of Napoleon. When the windmill is approved, in private Squealer once more chimes in on the redirecting, sharing to the other animals that the windmill was Napoleon's idea all along, and Snowball stole it. Supposedly Napoleon only seemed to oppose the idea to get rid of Snowball; which was in fact

(Golding, 96). They then put the mother pig's head on a stick to feed to the beast to leave them alone. The pig head causes more chaos later in the story which leads to more

The rulers of the farm take advantage of the low reading skills that the rest of the animals possess and use that weakness against them, as the animals just believe whatever the pigs tell them to, as they have no reason not to. The pigs’ goals seem intact and they do

Furthermore, Napoleon gives the other animals the impression he was the sole leader of the rebellion on Animal farm and makes Snowball -a leader who wanted what was best for the animals- seem like an enemy who was in cahoots with Farmer Jones since long before the animals took over the farm. Napoleon and Squealer (another “fat cat” pig.) always put the blame on Snowball whenever something went wrong in the farm to avoid having the blame fall on them. Napoleon is an exemplary example of just how selfish and hypocritical people can be in furthering their own aims because he continued to subtly but purposely change the seven rules put in place as the pillars of animalism. For example, Napoleon and the other pigs move into Farmer Jones’s house and sleep in his bed after commanding “No animal shall sleep in a bed”, so he changes the commandment to read “no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”.

GILBERT ‘S GRANDPARENTS FARM Finally after some hours and pass several Germans checkpoints, we arrived at the farm of Gilbert grandparents, which was near Orleans There we get out of the hiding place in the back of the truck and Gilbert and his grandparents received us as the cousins who came from Paris to spend the summer vacation with them. Gilbert grandmother Gave us to eat and she prepared a room for the three of us, because Leah did not want to be separated from me and from her doll Tete she was tired and asked several times about mom and grandpa, finally she fell asleep.

Tsar was the dictator of totalitarianism (where the government seeks to control all aspects of life) Russia which was in decadence and corruption, thereby most people were unease about the situation. It then lead to Marx and Lenin’s ‘prophet’ of a totally equal socialist country controlled not by free-market based capitalism where wealthy people ruled. Although most people did not understand the words, they were well persuaded by the essential ground-breaking word ‘freedom’. Is not it similar to chapter 1 in the novel? As most animals in the novel are dissatisfied with Mr. Jones’ dictatorship.

My parents enjoy telling friends and family that they originally purchased me from the hospital gift shop but had “no room in the inn” and therefore during my early childhood I was raised in a sheep stall in the barn. Though to this day I am unsure whether this story is valid as my father is yet to present the lost hospital gift shop receipt, it is still true that I have spent all of my life in an agricultural environment. When my parents moved from California to Idaho, they purchased a 40-acre farm in south Nampa as it was the perfect location for my dad to start his large animal vet practice and to raise myself and my two sisters. Farming was a new venture as my parents both grew up in urban environments in southern California where they

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