Courtney Patterson
June 21, 2010
ROAR Blog
ROAR Blog #3
In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, the last chapters lead the readers to a scene of chaos on the animal farm. The animals are trying to put blame on Snowball because he had promised the animals that if they help build a windmill, then it would improve their lives on the farm. Snowball’s plan backfired on him because the windmill failed. It broke when the animals finally got planned in the ground and of course the animals were upset, but Snowball wanted the animals to continue their process. He had them prepare to vote for their choice: for or against the windmill, but before snowball found out the result Napoleon came in with attacking dogs. The dogs scared Snowball off the farm as Napoleon came to take over. Napoleon might not have the support of Snowball anymore, but he still has the support of Squealer who tries to tell the rest of the animals that Napoleon is doing the right thing.
Under Napoleon’s power the animals try to work hard on getting enough food and also working hard on rebuilding the windmill. Napoleon and Squealer decided to get the animals to work faster and harder by saying they could only receive food, if they work for it. The animals responded to the new rule in a positive way; they choose to work without any problems. The leaders passed out the food among the animals, but soon they were running out of food. The pigs on the farm were beginning to get most of the food and they even started to live indoors, which went against the Seven Commandments that everyone was supposed to follow. Overtime more of the “leaders” started breaking the commandments as the other animals just watched on. Napoleon uses his attack dogs to kill some animals and scare the others, because he thought that they were betraying the farm.
As Napoleon showed that he was in control of the animal farm, he had some of the commandments changed, so they could fit the way he where running things. There were many killings, animals sleeping in beds, drinking alcohol, and becoming more like humans than acting like animals. As the readers finished the last chapter, they realize that the Animals changed into humans. They wear their clothing and they became everything that they were fighting against. The animals were walking on two legs, instead of four and that was one of the things that they hated the most about humans
*Summarized pages 74-128
Quote: “All Animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” (Orwell 123).
Reaction: My reaction this quote is that Napoleon and the pigs were seen as better than the rest of the animals. They were the leaders, so they didn’t have to follow commandments and they were able to change them, whenever they choose. The leaders like the pigs made the important decisions and with all of the power that they gained, they became exactly like the humans that they hated.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Roar Blog #2: Animal Farm
Courtney Patterson
Roar Blog #2
June 7, 2010
Roar Blog #2
Summary:
In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals continue with their plans to take over the farm and be their own bosses. To help with their plan, the animals find and use the tools that belong to Mr. Jones. The tools are used to harvest the food that the animals would need to use once they are able to run the farm, but in order to harvest food all the animals have jobs. The jobs that a few of the animals have is mowing and raking the leaves, but not all the animals took part of the chores. The pigs didn’t help with any of the hard labor, but their jobs were to supervise the other animals. They took the roles as the leaders and they are in charge of everything like the flag-raising/meetings which the rest of the animals have to participate in it. Snowball and Napoleon (the two main leaders) always make sure that their voices are heard the most when the animals have their meetings.
As the animals continue to work hard (some more than others) Old Major’s plan is being spread across the country. There are many animals that are starting to take apart of this movement “Four legs good, two legs bad.” They were singing the song “Beast of England” and growing a strong union among themselves, but Mr. Jones doesn’t like what was happening to his farm, so he made the choice to a take action against the animals. He decides to get help from the other farmers, who are scared that their animals will soon decide to make their own animal farm. They try to ambush the animals and take back Mr. Jones’ farm. Mr. Jones’ plan fails because a few birds had notice that the farmers were coming towards the animal farm and they went to tell the Snowball and Napoleon. Snowball decided that the animals will fight for what they thought was theirs.
The animals did fight the humans and they won, but one sheep had died in the process of the fight. This sheep was given a proper burial, but another animal was mentally wounded by the fight. It was Boxer, a cart-horse; he was upset that he had killed a human. It was a innocent kid who Boxer killed by an mistake. When Snowball heard that Boxer was upset about the death of this boy he basically told him that humans are best dead. This showed the other animals that Snowball really didn’t care about humans and he thought that they would be useless. For Snowball’s and Napoleon’s “leadership” ways they were honored and they received medals as well. When the animals were looking around the farm after the fight with Mr. Jones and the other farmers, they found Mr. Jones’ gun. They decided to place the gun on the flag-raising post and only fire it twice a year.
*Summarized pages 36-49
Quote:
“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one” (Orwell 49).
Reaction:
My reaction to the quote is that Snowball’s hate for humans is growing and soon every animal would feel the same way. Boxer would no longer be sorry that he killed a human and he would love destroying them. George Orwell’s writing style is very expressive. He expressed how Snowball felt toward the death of a human very well. He makes the animals have different emotions and strengths, and Orwell is good at expressing these emotions.
Roar Blog #2
June 7, 2010
Roar Blog #2
Summary:
In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals continue with their plans to take over the farm and be their own bosses. To help with their plan, the animals find and use the tools that belong to Mr. Jones. The tools are used to harvest the food that the animals would need to use once they are able to run the farm, but in order to harvest food all the animals have jobs. The jobs that a few of the animals have is mowing and raking the leaves, but not all the animals took part of the chores. The pigs didn’t help with any of the hard labor, but their jobs were to supervise the other animals. They took the roles as the leaders and they are in charge of everything like the flag-raising/meetings which the rest of the animals have to participate in it. Snowball and Napoleon (the two main leaders) always make sure that their voices are heard the most when the animals have their meetings.
As the animals continue to work hard (some more than others) Old Major’s plan is being spread across the country. There are many animals that are starting to take apart of this movement “Four legs good, two legs bad.” They were singing the song “Beast of England” and growing a strong union among themselves, but Mr. Jones doesn’t like what was happening to his farm, so he made the choice to a take action against the animals. He decides to get help from the other farmers, who are scared that their animals will soon decide to make their own animal farm. They try to ambush the animals and take back Mr. Jones’ farm. Mr. Jones’ plan fails because a few birds had notice that the farmers were coming towards the animal farm and they went to tell the Snowball and Napoleon. Snowball decided that the animals will fight for what they thought was theirs.
The animals did fight the humans and they won, but one sheep had died in the process of the fight. This sheep was given a proper burial, but another animal was mentally wounded by the fight. It was Boxer, a cart-horse; he was upset that he had killed a human. It was a innocent kid who Boxer killed by an mistake. When Snowball heard that Boxer was upset about the death of this boy he basically told him that humans are best dead. This showed the other animals that Snowball really didn’t care about humans and he thought that they would be useless. For Snowball’s and Napoleon’s “leadership” ways they were honored and they received medals as well. When the animals were looking around the farm after the fight with Mr. Jones and the other farmers, they found Mr. Jones’ gun. They decided to place the gun on the flag-raising post and only fire it twice a year.
*Summarized pages 36-49
Quote:
“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one” (Orwell 49).
Reaction:
My reaction to the quote is that Snowball’s hate for humans is growing and soon every animal would feel the same way. Boxer would no longer be sorry that he killed a human and he would love destroying them. George Orwell’s writing style is very expressive. He expressed how Snowball felt toward the death of a human very well. He makes the animals have different emotions and strengths, and Orwell is good at expressing these emotions.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
ROAR Blog #1: Animal Farm
Courtney Patterson
Roar Blog
June 1, 2010
Roar Blog #1
Summary:
In the book Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the readers met Mr. Jones. He is the owner of the Manor Farm, but he is a careless owner at times because he allowed himself to get drunk and he was unable to lock the animals behind the gate. The animals were able to wonder around and talk about the dream that old Major had. Old Major was a middle while boar, who was well respected throughout the animals. He knew that he would soon die, so Old Major wanted to tell the animals some life lessons and a dream he had the previous night. Old Major’s life lessons were about the fact that animals didn’t have long lives, their lives were hard, and how they usually die a horrible death. Old Major blames all of the animals’ hardships on humans, because they allow this to happen.
When Old Major talks about the dream, he has all of the animals’ full attention and he tells them that he dreamed about a world without humans. There were only animals and they were in charge of everything that went on. The animals would be able to be happy, live their lives the way that they wanted to, eat anything, and died with joy in their hearts. Of course, the point of Old Major telling the rest of the animals of this dream was to plan the idea in their minds: get rid of the humans and have a real animal farm. In order for this plan to work there would have to be leaders and the way that the animals decided who were the leaders of the movement were by gaining their “perfect comradeship.” This is where they decided which animals are best fit for the leadership roles.
In the next chapter, Old Major’s plans are still in effect after he dies. The pigs are seen as the cleverest animals and they soon decided to take over the whole movement. Three of the main pigs are Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball. They came up with this phase called Animalism and it meant that the animals were taking care of themselves; they no longer had Mr. Jones as their leader, and they enjoyed the new change.
*Summarized Pages 15-43.
Quote:
“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend” (Orwell 21).
Reaction:
My reaction to this quote is that the animals quickly changed their minds about humans and what they did for them. They wanted every animal to know that change was happening and if they knew best then they would get with the movement. George Orwell’s writing style is very creative because he makes the animals seem realistic. If humans could read the minds of animals, then they probably would be thinking the same things as the animals in the book. They probably would want to be in charge and able to do as they please.
Roar Blog
June 1, 2010
Roar Blog #1
Summary:
In the book Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the readers met Mr. Jones. He is the owner of the Manor Farm, but he is a careless owner at times because he allowed himself to get drunk and he was unable to lock the animals behind the gate. The animals were able to wonder around and talk about the dream that old Major had. Old Major was a middle while boar, who was well respected throughout the animals. He knew that he would soon die, so Old Major wanted to tell the animals some life lessons and a dream he had the previous night. Old Major’s life lessons were about the fact that animals didn’t have long lives, their lives were hard, and how they usually die a horrible death. Old Major blames all of the animals’ hardships on humans, because they allow this to happen.
When Old Major talks about the dream, he has all of the animals’ full attention and he tells them that he dreamed about a world without humans. There were only animals and they were in charge of everything that went on. The animals would be able to be happy, live their lives the way that they wanted to, eat anything, and died with joy in their hearts. Of course, the point of Old Major telling the rest of the animals of this dream was to plan the idea in their minds: get rid of the humans and have a real animal farm. In order for this plan to work there would have to be leaders and the way that the animals decided who were the leaders of the movement were by gaining their “perfect comradeship.” This is where they decided which animals are best fit for the leadership roles.
In the next chapter, Old Major’s plans are still in effect after he dies. The pigs are seen as the cleverest animals and they soon decided to take over the whole movement. Three of the main pigs are Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball. They came up with this phase called Animalism and it meant that the animals were taking care of themselves; they no longer had Mr. Jones as their leader, and they enjoyed the new change.
*Summarized Pages 15-43.
Quote:
“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend” (Orwell 21).
Reaction:
My reaction to this quote is that the animals quickly changed their minds about humans and what they did for them. They wanted every animal to know that change was happening and if they knew best then they would get with the movement. George Orwell’s writing style is very creative because he makes the animals seem realistic. If humans could read the minds of animals, then they probably would be thinking the same things as the animals in the book. They probably would want to be in charge and able to do as they please.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
