Animal Farm - Angelica Pearson

Angelica Pearson
Jedidah Blake
English
5/5/08

Animal Farm

This story is about animals rebelling against the evil Mr. Jones and I agree with the rebellion because that farmer was very mean. A farmer should be kind to his animals or be arrested for animal abuse. The men on the farm shouldn’t have whipped the animals. The animals broke into the feed bin because they were hungry since of Jones’s neglect of feedings. To the animals it was unjust to whip them for the break in. They went ballistic and chased the humans away. I’m not surprised that the animals were able to rebel because they have weapons of their own called hooves, horns, mouths, claws, beaks, and heads. The pigs got so intelligent that they became what they feared, humans. In real life an animal can stand up if it is being supported by its owner (I should know I taught my cat to dance with me).

The day after the rebellion the animals finished the hay harvest (the pigs supervised) and wrote the commandments (apparently pigs can write). Later there is the Battle of the Cowshed where six men including Jones are fought. The humans were repelled and only a sheep was killed (Jones had a gun). Mollie the horse was still acting like she did during the Reign of Jones (eating sugar lumps and wearing ribbons) and eventually ranaway. The plans for field improvements commenced in the 5th chapter. Snowball the pig made the plans. The windmill was a great idea for more efficiency for the farm (as in machines for the fields). I knew that the 9 puppies that Napoleon took in the 4th chapter would become guard dogs because I sensed an evil look on his face. Snowball seemed nicer then Napoleon. I think that whenever Napoleon did something like a human he changed the commandments.

The windmill was destroyed twice. It was knocked down in the 6th chapter by Snowball and blown up by humans in the 8th chapter and was completed in the 10th chapter.

I felt bad when Boxer the horse “died” and I think that Napoleon sold him to the glue factory. It may be good to see the good in people but you might just find the evil instead. In other words, some animals liked Napoleon until he had his dogs kill animals for treason. When the sheep say “four legs good, two legs bad” that can get on your nerves but when they say “four legs good, two legs better” something is wrong even though it is a little true.

Animal farms might appear when humans are gone and they evolve over generations (I saw this in a documentary about the future after we are gone like the dinosaurs). Animals might rebel like slaves or people of a brutal empire of evil. Napoleon took command after Snowball was chased away. This is very common in the wild as well. Think of Animal Farm as a small kingdom, the leaders have their castle (farmhouse), the king has a taste tester and guards (dogs), the people have various jobs and projects, there are messengers to neighbors (pigeons), they sell food for supplies, the people have a city (barn), and there are laws and punishments (commandments). Those animals are really smart with all this organization and plans for the battles, I’m surprised that the animals on the neighboring farms didn’t run away and join them. When they built and rebuilt the wind mills I was surprised that they finished without Boxer but if he didn’t get all those loads to the site the wind mill would have been a bust. I ‘m guessing that since he is so big that he must be a Clydesdale and I’ve seen them and they are big and very powerful horses used to carry big loads and pull large carriages. After the rebellion I wasn’t surprised that the pigs didn’t help very much because they are very lazy animals but very smart with using mud as sun block on hot days. Benjamin is very stubborn but that is how all donkeys and mules are at an old age. Over the years the animals were treated the same as when humans ran the farm. But not until the end was when a whip came into the farm after all those years that whips were destroyed and not seen on the farm until now. When the book said that the animals couldn’t tell who was human and who was pig, that was a really good ending.