The Animal Farm (60-97)

Summary

And so the backstabbing begins! Snowball who is one of the pigs has an idea to start a windmill that will help things run a bit smoother on the farm. However, Napoleon who is another one of the pigs disapproves of it, and during a community meeting he sends a pack of dogs that he has been raising after Snowball, and runs him off of the farm. Once that occurs, Napoleon takes over completely, and the farm is run differently than before. Napoleon begins to say how he actually did want the windmill and that Snowball stole the idea from him. The animals are immediately put to work on the windmill which is a grueling task for all of the animals. There are also some materials that they realize they do not have on the farm, and cannot grow on the farm, and so they must trade with other farms. Not only that but they begin to sell eggs to humans which goes against the commandment that says that animals are not allowed to trade with humans. As time goes by things begin to get “fishy” and the pigs begin to act in ways that go against the commandments.

Quote

“It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones (Orwell 68)”.

Reaction

This quote is an example of how things are really about to change in the farm. Slowly but surely, the pigs are turning into the same type of leaders that the farmer was especially with the way that they are treating the rest of the animal population. I think that this foreshadows what is yet to come, and pretty soon the pigs will probably be doing everything the same ways that the farmer used to do. In real life this sometimes occurs where there is a rebellion, but after a while things begin to drift right back to the way that things were previously. I cannot wait and see how things end.