December 2, 1996 Period 5Animal Farm Essay The name of the book is Animal Farm, which is written by GeorgeOrwell. This book is about a farm with animals who dislike the treatment, andovertake the farm and overthrow the humans of the farm. As the revolutiontook place, two leaders came about. Their names were Snowball andNapoleon, whose main goal was to have nothing to do with humans, and bringcommunism into their society. "Napoleon was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the onlyone of those on the farm. He was not much of a talker, but with a reputationfor getting his own way" (Ch.2, P. 25). "Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speechand more inventive but did not have the character depth that Napoleon did"(Ch.2, Pgs. 24-25.) Snowball was the one with the ideas like the committeesand the windmill. He was a better thinker than Napoleon. When all the animals helped kick Mr. Jones off the farm, Snowball ledthe animals to the store-shed and served out a double ration of corn toeverybody with two biscuits going to each of the dogs. Napoleon on the other hand was very selfish. He stole milk that wasmeant for everybody and drank it all, and he stole apples. He doesn't careabout the work the animals do, just what would benefit him. For example, Napoleon comes up with the building of the windmill thatwould supply electricity so they would not have to work as hard. Napoleonwas against this because he didn't come up with the idea. When Napoleonsees that Snowball is gaining more power with the speech of the windmill,Napoleon sends his dogs to chase Snowball out of the farm. After Snowballwas chased out of the farm, Napoleon gains more power by saying Snowballwas a bad person. He told the animals that Snowball was with Mr. Jonesfrom the starting. (Ch 6. P. 72) "We will teach this miserable traitor that hecannot undo our work so easily." He is now saying that Snowball was theone who ruined the windmill, even though it was his idea. He called him atraitor. And when Napoleon couldn't do the trash talking, he sent squealer. "For we know now, it is all written down in the secret documents thatwe have found-that in reality he was trying to lure us to our doom" (Ch. 7 P.80). He was telling all the animals that Snowball was a traitor and was withMr. Jones, because of the Battle of the Cowshed. He told them that it was allset up for them to be slaughtered. One animal shouted that he was shot. Butsquealer was a smart one. He told them that the shot only grazed him, andNapoleon was the good guy. He was the one that sank his teeth into Jones'leg. To me at least, it seemed that Snowball was always trying to do whatwas best for the farm and all the other animals. Snowball came up with theideas for the committees, the windmill, helped with the commandments. Hewas the courageous leader because the fact is that he was the one who led theanimals at the Battle of the Cowshed. he was the one who was supplying theanimals with food during the rebellion. Napoleon was stealing food. Napoleon, since, has been changing the commandments that wouldbest suit him. He has basically changed all the commandments with a fewwords. The seventh commandment has been changed to (Ch.10 P. 123) "AllAnimals are Equal But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others," meaningof course, the pigs are more equal. The commandments are being changed tobenefit them. The alcohol commandment has changed with an addition oftwo words. "No Animal Shall drink Alcohol To Excess). The bedcommandment has changed to where they can now sleep in beds, but withoutsheets, but the only animals that sleep in the beds are the pigs. Since the leader of the farm is a pig, none of the pigs have to follow thecommandments because when they break one, they just change it to what theydid. I think that the animals are starting to act like humans more and more,which they hated the most. The chant that was four legs good, two legs bad,had been changed to four legs good, two legs better, just because the pigswanted to walk like humans and have started walking like humans (Ch. 10 P.122). From this book, we learned that communism is very hard to bring to asociety where every person thinks that they are better then another. . 2, 1996 Period 5Animal Farm Essay The name of the book is Animal Farm, which is written by GeorgeOrwell. This book is about a farm with animals who dislike. a better thinker than Napoleon. When all the animals helped kick Mr. Jones off the farm, Snowball ledthe animals to the store-shed and served out a double