Animal Farm
In Animal Farm by George Orwell Mr. Jones the owner of the manor farm was abusing the animals. He wasn’t feeding them right, he would whip them and he was drunk all the time. Old Major was a pig and he had a dream that the animals would soon run the farm without Mr. Jones. The animals took this to heart and soon ran him out of his house. A few pigs emerged as leaders, Snowball and Napoleon. Things ran smooth for a while. Snowball works at teaching the animals to read and write, Napoleon took some puppies away to teach them the ways of animalism. Then Snowball and Napoleon start fighting over every decision. Then at one meeting they were arguing and Napoleon has the dogs come in and chase Snowball off the farm. Napoleon keeps modifying the amendments that they made when they first started. Napoleon keeps becoming more and more like a human when they swore that no animal would ever be like a human. The theme of this book is don’t underestimate the true power of anything. The genre is an animal fable.
The author uses the characters to develop the theme. When the animals were under fed and over worked they rebelled against Mr. Jones and took over the farm. They also do this again when Mr. Jones tries to take the farm back by force. The animals have been ready and he underestimates them and gets kicked out again.
I have a connection with the theme of this book it is my dads old truck his 1989 f-150 2wd we hauled a 4 ton bulldozer on the trailer behind it, and we have hauled a ton and a half in the bed. The reason why I picked this is because it’s a f-150 and they are only suppose to haul half a ton in the bed and a ton and a half tongue weight and we exceeded both of those. So don’t underestimate the true power of a ford. Bet a GM vehicle wouldn’t be able to do that (FORD POWA).
George Orwell had a good theme the danger of the working class. The author didn’t make the characters believable because they were talking animals and humans could understand them. Mr. Jones wouldn’t just give up and let the animals take his farm from him. I think the author had a good theme but the characters could have been portrayed a little different.
By: Sebastian Leeman
