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.

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

After Boxer died Mr. Pilkington’s men checked out the farm and at Foxwood had a celebration for Animal Farm and decided to call it Manor Farm. All the pigs looked similar and were shouting with anger, which probably meant 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. The ending in Animal is an unresolved of the fact the pigs were all upset and shouting with anger. All the pigs had the same thought except Napoleon, who was making all the rules 

Animal Farm Assignment Sheets

English 10                                                                             Name: Brandon Jansen

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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.