Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Animal Farm

Beasts of England! Beasts of Ireland!
Beasts of land and sea and skies!
Hear the hoofbeats of tomorrow!
See the golden future rise!
How does the life of an animal pass?
In endless drudgery.
What's the first lesson an animal learns?
To endure its slavery.

How does the life of an animal end?
In cruel butchery.
Beasts of England! Beasts of Ireland!
Beasts of land and sea and skies!
Hear the hoofbeats of tomorrow!

See the golden future rise!
Now the day of beasts is coming,
Tyrant man shall lose his throne
And the shining fields of England
Shall be trod by beasts alone.
Pull the rings from out your noses

Tear the saddle from your back!
Bit and spur must rust forever,
Cruel whips no more shall crack.
Beasts of England, seize the prizes,
Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans and mangel wurzel
Shall be ours upon that day (Orwell page 12) 


(Above is a poem from animal farm ,that the animals wrote about humans because they treated them so poorly)  

The animals of Manor Farm have always been sorrowful under the care Mr. Jones and his men. The animals  have come to accept their difficult lives as part of they way things should go . It is Old Major, a boar, who shares his dreams with the other animals. He tells them that the cause of all their suffering is because of the humans . With the humans  gone, the animals would enjoy the amount of stuff the land provides and build a new society. He says that Jones has no concern for the animals, that he uses them until they are no longer effective. He slaughters  the pigs and drowns the dogs when they get old. Old Major predicts that Jones will even sell Boxer, the horse, and the hardest  worker on the farm, to the slaughterhouse once he is no longer able to work. Boxer  encourages the animals to work for this revolution. He warns them never to become like man and to always treat each other as equals.  Boxer does end up getting sent to  slaughter house and the animals are even more pumped up for the 
revelution that they are planning. Three night later old major dies and the task of preparing for the revolution is left to the pigs (the most intelligent animals on the farm.)  One day Mr. Jones forgot to feed the animals and thats when the animals attack Mr Jones and drag him off of the farm. The animals have been successful with this and are filled with joy. Overtime, the pigs make something called the 7 commands and it says animals should do the complete opposite of what humans do and that all animals should be equal. After a while the pigs have started to get a little bit too controlling. For example, the pigs change the seven commandments 


Do you predict that the pigs will take over the farm and run it like Mr Jones? 


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