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English 10
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Friday, 21 December 2012
Novel Study Essay (Awareness) Project
Humans Have Lot’s of Similarities To Animals
Humans are Animals in many ways. Animals
are similar to Humans, but not as much
as the animals in the book Animal
Farm, which is written by George Orwell. The
animals on Animal Farm after the
farmer Mr. Jones was gone acted like humans in many ways in order to operate
the farm. Mr. Jones was gone after the animals rebelled against him, because he
was taking over the animals and treated them like slaves exactly like any other
farmer would do. Animals are influenced and manipulated by human behavior
throughout the book.
In Animal Farm, Animals are
influenced by human behavior.
For example, education on how to
read, gave the pigs ideas on how they could plan certain things for the farm.
The pigs watch Mr. Jones, “for whole days at a time he would lounge in his Windsor chair in
the kitchen, reading the newspapers, drinking, and occasionally feeding Moses
on crusts of bread soaked in beer” (Pg. 7). This is how the pigs learned
how to read, because they saw Mr. Jones read the newspaper everyday. This made
Snowball and the pigs very curious so, “the pigs now revealed that during the past three months they had
taught themselves to read and write from an old spelling book which had
belonged to Mr. Jones’s children and which had been thrown on the rubbish heap”
(Pg. 9).
When Old Major was dreaming about a
song, “ it is called
Beasts of England,” it led the animals to think of a rebellion (Pg. 4). Old Major had a
dream about the song Beast’s of England that he remember when he was little,
but he only knew the tune. Someone in his memory wanted to start a rebellion
that is why that song was in his memory so it was his right to pass on the song
and therefore the rebellion had to happen. The animals felt that they were treated like slaves so
Old Major said, “man is the
only real enemy we have” (Pg. 2). This is the reason the rebellion had
to happen, because it would be destroying the human race and that is what they
needed for no more humans to take them over.
When the animals wanted to take over the farm. The
animals rebelled against Mr. Jones to get the freedom they wanted so they needed
to get everyone ready to fight, “those ribbons that you are so devoted to are
the badge of slavery” (Pg. 6) The
animals are going to fight like humans in order to get what they want like Mr.
Jones would do.
An example is Mr. Jones and what he does for the animals,
“Mr. Jones feeds us. If he were gone, we should starve to death,” and that
influences the animals therefore they could live on their own (Pg. 6). Mr.
Jones did everything for the animals by feeding them so they can stay alive to
be slaves for him. Mr. Jones always ate food on his own and he never was given
food by animals and that is why some of the animals wanted to do their own work
and feed themselves.
There are Three Leaderships within
the animals. For example, Old Major was the main influence by his speech for
taking over the Farm to have freedom. He had issues to tell the animals, “here is a point that must be settled,”
that caused the rebellion to happen (Pg. 3). Old Major had something to
say that had to be said about man and the problems about humans. Old Major knew
the most and came up with a rebellion, so he was the main leader to animals
before he died.
Another example is how Snowball believed in Major’s
idea and took over when he died. He came up with plans for everything, “let us make it a point of honour to get in the harvest more
quickly than Jones and his men could do” (Pg. 10). Snowball took over as
leader and after he made the rebellion happen he made the farm Animal Farm
since they kicked Mr. Jones out. Snowball lead and operated the farm and therefore
he lead them through the harvest.
The last example is Napoleon took
over, because he felt that snowball betrayed the animals and was turning into
Mr. Jones. Napoleon knew he would be a better leader since Snowball was turning
evil so he found ways to make the animals think he would be better for them, “no one believes more firmly
than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal” (Pg. 21).
The Animals on the Animal Farm
created human and animal enemies with their neighbors. For example, Mr. Jones
tried to take back the farm with a bigger alliance. Mr. Jones came up with a
big plan of the reason that he wanted his farm back, “Jones and all his men, with half a dozen others from
Foxwood and Pinchfield, had entered the five- barred gate and were coming up
the cart-track that led to the farm” (Pg. 16). Mr. Jones became the
animal’s enemies, because he came with his men with heavy artillery right to
the gate of the farm to attack the animals. This means Mr. Jones will shoot
anyone that tries to hurt him in order to conquer the farm back.
When Snowball betrayed them by
turning exactly like Mr. Jones, because Napoleon thought Snowball’s ideas were
reminding him of Mr. Jones. Napoleon made the animals believe that Snowball
betrayed them, so Napoleon could become their leader, “as usual, Snowball and Napoleon were in disagreement”
(Pg. 20).
One more example is Mr. Pilkington from Foxwood
Farm blew up the animals windmill with dynamite and came to the farm to try to
take it over. The animals were taking
care of the farm like always and all of the sudden, “when they got up again, a huge cloud of black smoke was
hanging where the windmill had been” (Pg. 39).
The windmill was gone Mr. Pilkington and his men had a battle
trying to kill the Animals to shutdown Animal Farm.
Throughout the book human activity did
influence and manipulate the animals. All the animals on Animal Farm do change
from man, because without seeing Mr. Jones taking care of the farm and reading
newspapers and feeding the animals. The animals would not be able to be like
they are in Animal Farm and therefore they would just be like normal animals
while being treated like slaves for man. Everything the animals did allowed
them to be able to take care of the farm and not able to be taken by man again.
They were influenced, because if the animals did not see Mr. Jones do what he
did then Animal Farm would not even exist. Animals are a lot like humans,
because we are both mammals. Animals and even humans that are poor like to have
freedom just like a normal man or woman, they do not always like it if they get
treated like slaves or live in a terrible place. They know there is life for
them out in the world and really would like to live in happiness just like the
animals in Animal Farm.
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Animal Farm Plot Diagram
Introduction 1
Old Major a pig on the farm had a dream about having a
rebellion against man. He had the ideas that his mom heard when she was little
about having a rebellion even though she never told Major. Major was sick of
getting taken over by man and was happy with his dream so he shared with the
other animals and tried to make a plan to start the rebellion, with him being
their leader. After Major died, because of his age caused a panic attack for
the animals since they wanted to do exactly what Major said to them. Since he
was his leader they would not know what to do.
Initiating Incident 2
The animals came up with a plan to take over man, and
snowball decided to be in control of the rebellion. All the animals rebelled
against man and took over the farm and kick Mr. Jones, their farmer out and
named the farm Animal Farm under their control.
Rising Action 3
After the animals took the farm and kicked Mr. Jones out Mr.
Jones and his men came back to take back the farm. It was just like the
rebellion, but now the animals are defending the farm. They drove the men out
of their area and made sure the land was not going to be taken over by any more
humans. They had a good plan and thought out strategy, because Snowball was in
charged with a well-educated brain.
After snowball was the leader for sometime and had a plan of
making the windmill Napoleon took over, because he did not like what snowball
was doing since it reminded him plus all the animals of Mr. Jones. So Napoleon
unleashed the dogs he kept hidden and made them chase Snowball away. Once
snowball was gone Napoleon was going to take over and be the leader of the
animals and be in control.
After the windmill was built it was not built strong enough
and all the animals thought it was Snowball, because he was mad at the animals
and probably thought if he was not good enough to be leader then Napoleon will
be able to think outside the box and be able to not let anything happen to the
windmill, because they do not always have an eye on it. So someone including
Snowball could have been apart of destroying the windmill. The windmill was
weak and could have been taken down easily so anyone could of taken it done,
but Napoleon was the one that did not think if something could of happened to
it.
Climax 4
Frederick and his men from Pilkington Farm came and
destroyed the animal’s windmill that was made of two layers hard cement and
came to take control of the farm. Some animals were killed and since the
windmill was destroyed they would need to rebuild it. After the first time the
windmill was destroyed Napoleon did not think about it getting destroyed again
by humans such as dynamite, because it had 2 layers of cement and brick. If
Snowball was still in command he would of probably thought of that so that is
why Snowball should of not been kicked out.
Falling Action 5
Boxer died, because he worked so hard, because he was the
strongest of all the animals and he was the one that pulled heavy things to the
windmill. The windmill had to be built fast so he would have to work a long
time in order to get in done a short amount of time.
Conclusion 6
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Animal Farm Assignment Sheets
English
10 Name: Brandon Jansen
Block: C
Animal
Farm - Character tracker
Character
Name
|
Type
of Animal
|
Mr. Jones Pg. 1
|
Human
|
Mrs. Jones Pg. 1
|
Human
|
Old Major Pg. 1
|
Pig
|
Bluebell Pg. 1
|
Dog
|
Jessie Pg. 1
|
Dog
|
Pincher Pg. 1
|
Dog
|
Pg. 1
|
Hens
|
Pg. 1
|
Pigeons
|
Pg. 1
|
Sheep
|
Pg. 1
|
Cows
|
Boxer Pg. 1
|
Horse
|
Clover Pg.1
|
Horse
|
Muriel Pg. 1
|
Goat
|
Benjamin Pg. 1
|
Donkey
|
Pg. 2
|
Ducks
|
Mollie Pg. 2
|
Mare
|
Pg. 2
|
Cat
|
Pg. 3
|
Rats
|
Pg. 3
|
Rabbits
|
Snowbell Pg. 6
|
Pig
|
Napoleon Pg. 6
|
Pig
|
Squealer Pg.6
|
Pig
|
Roses Pg. 7
|
Raven
|
Mr. Pilkington Pg. 15
|
Human
|
Mr. Frederick Pg. 15
|
Human
|
Mr. Whymper Pg. 25
|
Human
|
Pinkeye Pg. 37
|
Pig
|
Animal Farm
Chapter
|
Leadership:
The action
of leading a group of people or an organization.
|
Egalitarianism:
Of
relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal.
|
Hierarchies:
A system in
which people or groups is ranked one above the other according to status or
authority.
|
Disillusionment:
A feeling of
disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as
one believed it to be.
|
1
|
“Comrades,
here is a point that must be settled.”
Pg. 3
“I have a
little more to say.”
Pg. 4
|
“No animal
must ever kill any other animal.
“All animals
are equal.”
Pg. 4
|
“Man is the
only real enemy we have.”
“Remove man
from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for
ever.”
Pg. 2
|
“Man is the
only creature that consumes without producing.”
Pg. 2
“It is not
crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring
from the tyranny of human beings?”
Pg. 3
|
2
|
“Comrade, those ribbons that you are so devoted to
are the badge of slavery.”
Pg. 6
“Comrades,’ said Snowball, ‘it is half-past six and
we have a long day before us. Today we begin the hay harvest. But there is
another matter that must be attended to first.”
Pg. 9
|
“Comrades,’ said Snowball, ‘it is half-past six and
we have a long day before us. Today we begin the hay harvest. But there is
another matter that must be attended to first.”
Pg. 9
“They explained that by their studies of
the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of
Animalism to Seven Commandments.”
Pg. 9
|
“Now, comrades,’ cried Snowball, throwing down the
paint-brush, to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honour to get in the
harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do.”
Pg. 10
“What is going to happen to all that milk?”
Pg. 10
“Never mind the milk, comrades!’ cried
Napoleon. That will be attended to.”
Pg. 10
|
“Mr. Jones feeds us. If he were gone, we should
starve to death.”
Pg. 6
“Comrade, those ribbons that you are so devoted to
are the badge of slavery.”
Pg. 6
“What is going to happen to all that milk?”
Pg. 10
|
3
|
“Comrades.”
Pg. 14
“You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing
this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege.”
Pg. 14
|
“A bird’s wing, comrades, is an organ of propulsion
and not of manipulation. It should therefore be regarded as a leg. The
distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all
his mischief.”
Pg. 13
|
“Donkeys live
a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”
Pg. 12
|
“I will work
harder!”
Pg. 12
“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen
a dead donkey.”
Pg. 12
|
4
|
“No
sentimentality, comrade.”
Pg. 17
“War is war. The only good human being is a dead
one.”
Pg. 17
|
“I have no wish to take life, not even human life.”
Pg. 17
|
“Animal Hero, First Class”
“Animal Here, Second Class.”
Pg. 17
|
“He is
dead.”
Pg. 17
“Where is
Mollie.”
Pg. 17
“War is war. The only good human being is a dead
one.”
Pg. 17
|
5
|
“Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a
pleasure.”
Pg. 21
“If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.”
Pg. 22
|
“I trust that every animal here appreciates the
sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon
himself.”
Pg. 21
“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon
that all animals are equal.”
Pg. 21
|
“Vote for Snowball and the three-day week.”
Pg. 20
“Vote for Napoleon and the full manger.”
Pg. 20
|
“He didn’t! I wasn’t! It isn’t true!”
Pg. 18
|
6
|
“Leader”
Pg. 26
“No more
delays, comrades!”
Pg. 28
|
“No animal
should sleep in a bed with sheets.”
Pg. 27
|
“Napoleon is
always right.”
Pg. 25
“I will work
harder.”
Pg. 25
|
“I will work
harder.”
Pg. 25
|
7
|
“Whatever happened she would
remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders that were given to her, and
accept the leadership of Napoleon.”
Pg. 34
|
“If she herself had had any picture of the future,
it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all
equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the
weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on
the night of Major’s speech.”
Pg. 34
|
“Our Leader, Comrade Napoleon.”
Pg. 32
|
“For days at a time the animals had nothing to eat
but chaff and mangels.”
Pg. 29
“Did we not see for ourselves how he attempted —
fortunately without success — to get us defeated and destroyed at the Battle
of the Cowshed?”
Pg. 31
“They all remembered, or thought they remembered,
how they had seen Snowball charging ahead of them at the Battle of the
Cowshed, how he had rallied and encouraged them at every turn, and how he had
not paused for an instant even when the pellets from Jones’s gun had wounded
his back.” Pg. 31
|
8
|
“Napoleon called the animals together immediately
and in a terrible voice pronounced the death sentence upon Frederick.”
Pg. 38
|
“No animal shall kill any other animal.”
Pg. 35
“At about half past nine Napoleon, wearing an old
bowler hat of Mr. Jones’s, was distinctly seen to emerge from the back door,
gallop rapidly round the yard, and disappear in doors again.”
Pg. 41
|
“You would often hear one hen remark to another,
Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in
six days; or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim. Thanks to
the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!”
Pg. 36
|
“When they got up again, a huge cloud of black smoke
was hanging where the windmill had been. Slowly the breeze drifted it away.
The windmill had ceased to exist!”
Pg. 39
A cow, three sheep, and two geese were killed, and
nearly everyone was wounded.
Pg. 39
|
9
|
Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should
be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was
to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm.
Pg. 44
“In April, Animal Farm was proclaimed a Republic,
and it became necessary to elect a President. There was only one candidate,
Napoleon, who was elected unanimously.”
Pg. 45
|
“Indeed, all the animals worked like slaves that
year.”
Pg. 45
|
“About this time, too, it was laid down as a rule
that when a pig and any other animal met on the path, the other animal must
stand aside: and also that all pigs, of whatever degree, were to have the
privilege of wearing green ribbons on their tails on Sundays.”
Pg. 44
“At the appointed time the animals would leave their
work and march round the precincts of the farm in military formation, with
the pigs leading, then the horses, then the cows, then the sheep, and then
the poultry.”
Pg. 44
|
“The sheep were the greatest devotees of the
Spontaneous Demonstration, and if anyone complained (as a few animals
sometimes did, when no pigs or dogs were near) that they wasted time and
meant a lot of standing about in the cold.”
Pg. 45
“There lay Boxer, between the shafts of the cart,
his neck stretched out, unable even to raise his head. His eyes were glazed,
his sides matted with sweat. A thin stream of blood had trickled out of his
mouth. Clover dropped to her knees at his side.”
Pg. 46
“Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler,
Willingdon. Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal. Kennels Supplied.’ Do you not
understand what that means? They are taking Boxer to the knacker’s!”
Pg. 46
“Three days later it was announced that he had died
in the hospital at Will- ingdon, in spite of receiving every attention a
horse could have. Squealer came to announce the news to the others.”
Pg. 47
|
10
|
“One day in early summer Squealer ordered the sheep
to follow him, and led them out to a piece of waste ground at the other end
of the farm, which had become overgrown with birch saplings.”
Pg. 50
“Gentlemen,’ concluded Napoleon, ‘I will give you
the same toast as before, but in a different form. Fill your glasses to the
brim. Gentlemen, here is my toast: To the prosperity of The Manor Farm!”
Pg. 54
|
“No creature among them went upon two legs. No
creature called any other creature ‘Master.”
Pg. 50
“After that it did not seem strange when next day
the pigs who were su- pervising the work of the farm all carried whips in
their trotters.”
Pg. 52
|
“It did not seem strange when Napoleon
was seen strolling in the farmhouse garden with a pipe in his mouth — no, not
even when the pigs took Mr. Jones’s clothes out of the wardrobes and put them
on, Napoleon himself appearing in a black coat, ratcatcher breeches, and
leather leggings, while his favourite sow appeared in the watered silk dress
which Mrs.
Jones had been used to wear on Sundays.”
Pg. 52
Napoleon himself occupying the seat of honour at the
head of the table.”
Pg. 52
|
“A time came when there was no one who
remembered the old days before the Rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses
the raven, and a number of the pigs.
Muriel was dead; Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher were
dead. Jones too was dead — he had died in an inebriates’ home in another part
of the country. Snowball was forgotten. Boxer was forgotten, except by the
few who had known him.”
Pg. 49
“It was as though the world had turned upside-down.”
Pg. 51
|
Old Major had a dream about man and people taking over
their lives such as having them all-equal and could not be free. He shared his
dream and it turned out that all the animals believed in it. So the animals
wanted to start a rebellion to get out of their state of living and wanted to
leave. I think later in the book they will find out ways to get out in the wild
and destroy man once and for all.
The animals
finally took man out of their living area such as their barn so they can
finally have peace and do their own things. The Animals listened to Snowball
and Napoleon after Major died in starting the rebellion, which they started
greatly. I think later in the book the animals will need man again and cannot
get him back therefor they will have a hard time on the farm. The animals that
need to be fed only by humans might starve and not know what to do.
The pigs got all
the milk, because they are the leaders of the animals, also they are the smart
ones. If they got sick, because they are not drinking milk Mr. Jones and his
men with come back and take over the farm. They are the smart ones so no
animals would know what to do and will be controlled by Mr. Jones. I think
later the men will come back and take over the farm, because the pigs are
getting sick.
Mr. Jones and
his friends came back to the farm to take back Animal Farm. They had sticks and
Mr. Jones had a gun. The pigs leaded the defence and eventually after the sheep
died they made the men retreat and they took back the farm. Since they have the
farm they do not need to be controlled by man. I think later on the men might
come back with a bigger army and the animals will not be able to defend.
Snowball was turning into a human and was
kind of like Mr. Jones, which the other animals did not like so Napoleon the
other pig that is always right brought out the dogs that they kept captured.
The dogs chased Snowball with their big body and teeth and tried to take down
snowball. Snowball got and away and hides. It was important, because snowball
if he is not there the animals would not turn into humans. I think later on
snowball will come back and start to attack the animals with Mr. Jones and his
men.
Snowball came back
and ruined the animals plan’s of building the windmill. The windmill would be
their resource so if snowball messes with it would not be good for the animals.
All the animals knew that snowball did this since he is their knew enemy, just
like Mr. Jones. Snowball messed with their equipment and cement for building
the windmill so Napoleon is going to make a plan that will not let Snowball
ruin their windmill once and for all. I think later on the windmill will be
built and Snowball will come back and ruin other plans of the animals.
There was a pile
of dead corpses after the Animals were telling the tale about snowball and the
sheep with Napoleon. The dead corpses was in front of Napoleon’s feet, which
probably say’s something about Jones since they did not know about it ever
since Mr. Jones left. I think later on Mr. Jones, snowball and other animals
are going to come back to the farm and have some big plan to take back the
farm.
Frederick and his
15 men with guns came and blew up the windmill and tried to take the farm. The
animal’s won the battle and named it the Battle of the Windmill. Some animals
died during the battle, but at least they did not lose their farm. It was
important, because all the exaggerations that Frederick said to them about
doing bad things to their animals and planning to attack the Animal Farm came
true. I think later the animals will build the windmill again and set up a
defense system for it so it cannot be destroyed again and they could have a
happy lifetime.
Boxer after dragging a load to the windmill
collapsed and fell down in pain with something being wrong with his lung. This
is important, because this means Boxer would either die or need to be taken in
to humans and get healed and taken care of and will not see the other animals
again. I think later on more animals will be in pain or die, which the animals
cannot see again and the population of animals on the farm will decrease.
Mr. Pilkington men check out the farm and
after at Foxwood they had a celebration for Animal Farm. Napoleon had a toast
and sat in the seat of honour and agreed that Animal Farm was to be named Manor
Farm. While that happened Clover looked at the other animals and farmers with
old dim eyes and all the pigs were all shouting with anger and all looked
alike. Nobody knew which one was who. This probably means that the pigs were
all mad of what was happening and all the faces of the pigs were melting and
changing in identical faces of all the pigs. I think if later on if there was
more the pigs will rebel against the new farm and take back what was said and
what was theirs before the meeting.
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