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Ch.1 and 2 __Study__ Guide .They are like animals because they live in barns. They act like animals like the horses and the pigs and the other animals too and they are still treated as animals. I feel that they act like humans because they have a leader, they talk, and they are kind of organized. 2.The speech had a huge impact on the animals. It was a __great__ morale booster for them all. In it the __major__ explained that the humans were the enemies and the animals were their comrades. It had a huge impact because it helped the animals realize that they should not fight each other and that they all need to focus their attention on the true enemies, the humans. It was also a final word from their leader because he said he thought his time was short. 3.The __major__ says that because he wants the animals to realize that the humans are taking advantage of them and that they should __view__ them as the enemies not their fellow animals. He tells the animals that they are each each others comrades. This is a pretty big assumption because he is assuming all humans are like his owners which may not be the case so I don't completely agree with what he is saying. 4.I think the animals were so easily __led__ for many reasons. One of those reasons is that they need a leader. Another is that he had been their awhile and they trusted him as well as what he was saying made sense. He told them he was dying and that probably got their attention more too. 6.Jones and some of his friends were tormenting and whipping the animals so they decided to finally rebel and attack the men and manage to drive them out of the farm. After they felt relieved and started to get rid of all the things that their owners used to abuse/torment and all the other things that they felt they should. Some things were burned others were destroyed and so on and so forth. The day after they remembered and their bodies __filled__ with joy as they could roam the farm in piece. They looked at everything thinking about how happy they were that they now owned everything. 7.The very first commandment said that all humans basically were the enemies. It was also extremely similar to our actual 10 commandments that later grew because it says that all animals should have their own right and not be forced to do anything. It also that all animals were created equal. This could be a concern for humans because if the animals united against the humans as organized as the humans they pose as a very scary and likely threat. 9.It could of been the perfect place for many reason. It could of been the perfect place because after the humans were kicked out their was a good __balance__ and it almost seemed to be in a way, perfect. The animals no longer had to put up with their insufferable owners and could do what ever they wanted whenever they wanted. They were __free__. It also had rules so the animals did not get out of hand. Ch.3 and 4 __Study__ Guide 1.They were starting to set up roles for everyone to do and their was an equal amount of __work__ distributed between the farm. They were also __working__ together. They had leaders and other roles you would expect in a balanced government. 2.Green flag that represented green fields and their freedom.It was green table cloth. It had hooves and horns on them. 3.At meeting the animals were noticing that when snowball and napoleon were constantly in disagreement when the other suggested a resolution. They both continuously were fighting for control. 4. Snowball says 4 legs good, 2 legs bad. This just simplifies the 7 commandments to make it easier to remember by simply stating that all animals are comrades and humans are the enemies. 5.The pigs did this by always looking better and other things. They were always better at things like writing and did not have to do most of the work because they were leading the animals. Also, the 2 leaders are pigs, giving the pigs more power and giving them special privileges like the milk. They also told all the animals that they were smarting. They threatened the other animals that Farmer Jones would come back and take over if they did not get the milk and apples. 6.Squealer was helping to brain wash the animals by helping to spread news of what had happened at animal farm. This was making all animals more rebellious and in turn was upsetting their owners because they had to deal with it. He was telling the animals that if they did not listen to the pigs the farm would be taken over and he told them that all pigs should be in charge. 7.It was different because the animals were expecting the humans to try to take back the farm so they had preparations whereas when the animals rebelled it took Mr. Jones by surprise. Also in the battle their was a confusion in how many people died or if anyone died and after they had the humans running the animals abused the humans instead of the humans abusing them. The humans had weapons. 8.Snowball was very proud and he told the animals not to worry about the humans that died because the only good humans are dead humans. Boxer felt guilty that he killed a boy and did not know at the time that the boy was not dead just stunned. He did not feel like he deserved to be decorated. 9. This is ironic because they are risking their lives for a lost cause because the pigs are not making it a balanced society by wanting to be in charge of everything and getting things that the other animals don't get. There is no point in risking their lives for all of the animals except the pigs because the rest of the animals are not getting any benefits and are risking their lives for a society where they hold power but are not getting it because the pigs are. Ch.5 and 6 Study Guide 1.When Mollie was supposed to be working a lot of the time she did not and just went to eat or stare at her reflection. There were also rumors that she was communicating with humans. Later they found out from the pigeons that she was communicating with the human and decided to stay there with him. 2.Snowball wanted to build a windmill and Napoleon wanted them to increase food production instead. They had a meeting and wanted to decide who's idea would be used. Napoleon also urinated on the plans of the windmill. During the vote Napoleon had dogs charge into the barn and chased Snowball out of the farm. Napoleon had taken the dogs from their mother and made them obedient to him. The vote was decide, there would be no windmill. 3.There are similarities and differences between Napoleon and Mr. Jones. They both ruled the farm with more force than with leadership and a democracy. They also both are not treating the animals very fair. They both were not very good speakers so they had to run the farm with force. Napoleon however was not abusing the animals he was just intimidating them with his dogs and other stuff, whereas Mr. Jones actually abused them and whipped them. 4. Obedience and loyalty replaced freedom and bravery because once Snowball was exiled from the farm there no longer freedom because Napoleon did not want them to be free. He also told the other animals that bravery did not matter because they did not want them to think of Snowball as a war hero and that he was brace. Napoleon also did not want bravery to be as important because he knew that he could never be as brave as Snowball was so decided to make it seem like bravery was not that important but loyalty was and obedience was. 5.What Squealer did was make it seem like Snowball had been in the wrong all along and that he had stolen those ideas from Napoleon. This made the animals think that maybe Napoleon was right to exile Snowball. Basically what Squealer is doing is making all the other animals think badly about Snowball. However when they even try to disagree the dogs are always there to intimidate the animals into agreeing. This is propaganda because Squealer is telling the animals that Napoleon did the right thing and Snowball had done the wrong thing, implying that Napoleon thought that he was better than Snowball. 6.This shaped Boxer's character by proving that Boxer did a lot of work and was a hard worker. This tells us that Boxer is a helpful and hard worker and did his best to make sure that all the work on the farm. This also tells us that Boxers best quality was that he was a hard worker. 7.He told all the animals that all the arrangements had been made and he had it all in control. He also told them that trade was simply needed to gain supplies for the windmill and could get the supplies no other way. 8.An example of him making up a rule to suit his own needs is when he made a new policy that said Animal Farm would now engage in trade with neighboring farms. They are forced to accept this because Napoleon is the leader and anybody who tries to speak up is quickly silenced by Napoleons dogs. Squealer was also constantly telling the animals that thought their were resolutions against it that there were no such resolutions and was constantly telling them that they were just imagining things. 9.Tactics as Napoleons used it was like strategy. His tactics were convincing the animals that Snowball was bad and keep looking for ways to pin certain things on him like the windmill. His tactics were having everyone doing the work for him and then acting like he was helping by leading them and that was why him and the pigs should get the best things. His tactics were tactics of a coward who lead the animals by force, made the animals do everything for him, and acted a lot like a tyrant.

Chapter 7 and 8 Study Guide 1.While they were dealing with the harsh winter weather and the building of the windmill they also had a shortage on food and the economy was falling apart do to the weather and the constant work. Napoleon made sure not to make sure the animals did not know that the economy was doing so bad. Napoleon even had Whymper tell the other humans that there was no food shortage.2. Napoleon ordered that the hens receive no rations and that any animal that did were to be sentenced to death. The hens managed to last for 5 days but eventually gave in and decided to give in to Napoleon. 9 hens died in this process.3.Napoleon decided to use Snowball leaving as his own advantage. He tells the animal that whenever something goes wrong that it was Snowball that was causing all the problems and the mischief. He also tells the animals that he comes to the farm during the night and this scares all the other animals and makes them nervous even to sleep in their own beds.4.The meaning of the executions was that Napoleon was not afraid to kill any animal that is a traitor or any animal that has done something that Napoleon had strict rules against. This makes Napoleon's power even more of a power by force and not a power by helping or by an equal share in work or anything else. This also makes the animals more scared about Napoleon than before and they realize they should not stand against Napoleon ever again.5.She sung it because she was sad and depressed and did not know what to say so she starts singing Bests of England and the animals around her start to sing with her. This shows that she is actually a good animal and realizes what Napoleon is doing is wrong but she also does not know what to do about it but to her singing Beasts of England makes her feel better and I think that it helped all of the other animals to because it helped them think of what times used to be like before Napoleon started to rule with complete force.6. The reason that Napoleon gives for abolishing Beasts of England is that it was a song to represent times during the rebellion and now after the rebellion there was no point in singing it because the execution of the traitors was the last step in the rebellion. The true reason though was that it made all of the other animals think about Old Major and the speech he gave and how he wanted animal farm to turn out. This scared Napoleon and he figured he needed to stop the song before the animals rebelled and took back the farm. It was also giving them hope and Napoleon was ruling by giving the animals no hope and making them think they need Napoleon or the farm would be taken back over.7.Ex #1-The first example of propaganda I saw was Napoleon changing the 6th commandment to no animal should never kill another animal without cause and he added the without cause part to make it look like he should have killed the animal when he did for being traitors. I find no truth in it because I do not think the animals were traitors anyway so Napoleon just did it to scare the other animals.Ex#2-Another example was when Squealer told all the animals that the production was going up in certain percents depending on what better suit him. They did this to make the animals think that the conditions were way better than when farmer Jones was in rule. I find that to be kind of true because they kind of are but they also kind of are not.Ex#3-He tells the animals that Snowball is threatening to take down the windmill again and is working with the humans when all along Napoleon is constantly trading with the humans and is actually on good terms with the humans. This gets Napoleon the supplies he wants and puts fear into the animals. I see no truth in it because I do not think that Snowball would not do such a thing to something the animals have all worked really hard on.Ex#4-He told the animals one day that he never had attempted to trade with the humans and it was not something a animal like him would do. This makes the animals trust him more and make them think he is actually Fredrick all along. I know there is no truth to this because Napoleon did try to trade with Fredrick but his prices were outrageous.Ex#5-Napoleon told the animals that he did not order himself to be awarded animal hero first class and that Snowball himself had awarded it to him and that Snowball started the rumors about him being a coward during the battle. This makes him look more heroic and make it look like he did a lot more in the battle than he did. I see no truth in it because he was never mentioned during the battle and Snowball would not have awarded him it because Snowball was the one rewarded.8.It makes all of the animals think that Napoleon is sacrificing so much and that he is a huge part in the surviving of the farm. It also makes all of the animals think he is so nice and is such a great leader9.It was not as easy as a battle as the battle of the Cowshed and the rebellion because there was 15 people with a half a dozen to go about them. The opened fire quickly and were raining fire down upon the animals and they did not even get close before they were driven back. Also during the battle it seems the animals kind of lost because after all the work they did on the wind mill was blown to bits just like that. After the animals saw that they were filled was enraged and charged them and the animals managed to drive them off but by the end of the battle there were many dead animals and all of them had injuries. The animals were so disappointed by the destruction of the windmill they had pretty much lost all of their hope. 2 years of work gone lost. After the battle Squealer told them they had won the battle because they had managed to drive the humans off again. Chapter 9 and 10 study guide 1.The stated purpose is to celebrate the triumphs and struggles of animal farm. The real purpose is to make the animals think they were not as hungry as they were. 2.Napoleon allowed Moses to stay on the farm because he made the animals think that there was a candy mountain and that it was a lovely place for all animals to go. This makes the animals think that there has to be a better place to go to when they die after they have lived such a hard a harsh life. This is significant for Napoleon because it helps the animals to work harder and to not worry about the famine on the farm as much. 3.Boxer is admired by the animals on the farm because he is a hard worker and does his best to get all of his work done. The animals are led to believe that Napoleon is have him taken to a hospital in Willingdon to get treated. Boxer is really sent to a horse slaughterer to get slaughtered for meat or another product. Squealer covers it up by saying that the reason the van said horse slaughterer was because the veterinary surgeon had not yet repainted the sign because he had bought it from a horse slaughterer. 4.What happened to you in Russia when you got to old to work Stalin would execute, starve or exile and Stalin gained from their deaths by spending the money he gets or gives it to his executives. 5.There was a constant happening of the shifting of the animals into two different classes and it happened it a lot of ways. The two classes were The pigs and dogs and the other class was all the other animals. They were constantly shifting into two separate classes because the pigs were constantly doing or giving themselves things that the other animals did not get except the dogs and sheep like the alcohol and the beds and many other things. The things that made it kind of final though was when the pigs were walking across the farm on their hind legs and when the Clover checked the seven commandments there was only one that said all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than other. This is the pigs saying that they are better than all the other animals along with the dogs and the sheep. Also, after that incident the sheep started to blurt our four legs good, two legs better to make it seem as though walking on your hind legs now as an animal was OK and was actually encouraged. As well, after that all the pigs stated carrying whips in their trotters.

Though questions

1.I think the animals were never encouraged to never run away with Moses when he explained Candy Mountain because I think they were afraid to because they were probably afraid that Napoleon would have his dogs chase them down and kill them. I also don't think they thought they could outrun the dogs because Moses could fly so they could never kill him anyway buy they could not so I think they did think they would make it. Napoleon probably told Moses that if he tried to convince the animals to go to candy mountain he would execute him or exile him. 2.The significance of the song Beasts of England is extremely important during and after the rebellion. It is extremely important because it helped the animals and it was something Old Major sang after his speech. It was important during the rebellion because whenever the animals thought about it they thought about Old Major and what he had told them and that they should rebel to get the farm they wanted. It basically was a moral booster during the rebellion because of Old Major and what he did. 3.They believed that the work they were doing was for themselves but as it progressed they started to just work for Napoleon. They had no resentment because they were working for an animal not a human like Farmer Jones. 4.At the beginning he did not want the windmill because it was Snowballs idea and everything Snowball said Napoleon hated him and always disagreed with him on everything. He did not start to like it until Snowball had already been exiled. 5.Snowball made a very high pitched squeal and the dogs came bounding into the farm because he was mad that Snowball had made such a great speech and was going to win and get the Windmill. No animal interrupted because they were scared and it happened really suddenly. 6.If the animals made a wrong decision or kicked the pigs out they told the animals that Jones would come back and that is the main reason they never rose up against Napoleon too. 7.I do not think so because no matter who the leader is all leader can get power crazy and find themselves wanting more and more so I think a leader should not make all the decisions because that is to much power maybe just have them make some decisions. 8.They told the animals that they were the smarts of the operation and that it was a lot of work that required good rest at night. The dogs also scared everybody and the pigs quickly changed the seven commandments and made it say no animals can sleep on a bed with sheets on it. 9.The dogs again were always there to back Napoleon up and growl at any animal that tried to say something. The pigs also tell the animals that they had a hard job thinking and they needed the extra sleep over the other dogs. 10.He did not actually no that he just told the other animals that so they would be scared and would never trust Snowball so there is no possibilities that they will try to join Snowball. 11.She is convinced life is better without Jones because it seems that way when Squealer always told the animals how good they were doing and that the production was always rising when it was actually falling. She thought all the animals were equal. 12.Boxer works so hard because now that there is not human behind him whipping him he wants to show them that he works harder without that and that he needed to works so hard to get the perfect Utopia that they animals all wanted. 13.It represents Utopia by what old Major had described to the other animals and what the farm could be without the humans. That changed though because no society can have a perfect Utopia, it is going to be split into two different groups; the high class and the low class. The higher class usually got better stuff like the pigs getting beds,alcohol, getting up later, and not having to do as much work. The lower class got less like the other animals and they had to work more like the other animals.

Class Stratification, the high class versus the low class.

5 Key People 1.Leon Trotsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist,Soviet Politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. He was part of the Bolshevicks. He lead the left opposition against the policies of Joseph Stalin. Was forced out of power and deported out of Russia to be assassinated on Stalin's orders in 1924.

|| Karl Marx-a political philosopher in the 1800's whose concepts and ideas are eventually turned into socialism and communism which are the idea that societies' people should share in both all the work that is done...as well as the goods work produces. BELIEVED IN SHARING. || My mom- she is the Karl Marx of today for me because she works all the time and does not get a lot of free time just so my sister and I can get the stuff we want and need. She is also helping others a lot like when she subs at a school or gives me a job at her business. || candy mountain. || Russian Orthodox Church || Moses reminds me of someone I go to school with. I'm not going to mention their name but at school they just sit around and tell what I believe are stories that are not true instead of getting his work done. ||
 * ~ Character/item/event from Animal Farm ||~ What it symbolized for Orwell ||~ What it symbolizes for me (in today's world) ||
 * Old Major- the most well respected animal on the farm was the leader in the beginning of the story.Humans were evil and they thought that if the humans were not around they would of had a better life.Believed that all animals should share an equal amount of work on the farm.
 * Moses- a bird that was Mr.Jones pet he fled soon after the revolution but returned later. When he returned though he did not want to do any work at the farm, so instead he sat around and told stories about a
 * Snowball-a pig that was in power with napoleon and was later exiled from the farm. He believed in what old major believed in. [[image:http://www.glogster.com/media/4/25/47/18/25471880.jpg width="296" height="260"]] || He represents Leon Trotsky. He was one of the first revolutionaries but quickly became Joseph Stalins enemy. He was later exiled from Russia and was forgotten by most. Stalin also had him assassinated in Mexico City.[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R15068,_Leo_Dawidowitsch_Trotzki.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R15068,_Leo_Dawidowitsch_Trotzki.jpg width="218" height="332"]] || He reminds me of Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin was standing for something he believed in and had a lot of people who did not like what he stood for. Martin was also assassinated because some people did not like what he stood for and found him as a threat that must be eliminated.[[image:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/art/mlk/index.jpg width="370" height="238"]] ||
 * Boxer- A very loyal and dedicated horse who did his best to get his work done, however, he is not very smart. He had two mottoes that were "I will work harder" and "Napoleon is always right".

|| He represent the working class. In the revolution the working class was a lot like boxer, they did what they were told and were hard workers. However, they were huge a huge part in the uprising of the revolution.

|| They symbolize to my sister. My sister is a very hard worker and whenever our parents get mad at her she does not question them and just does what she is told. The only difference is that she is quite smarter than Boxer. ||
 * Napoleon-The counterpart of Snowball pretty much because when old Major died they both rose up to be the leaders of the farm and were always arguing. Eventually Napoleon exiled Snowball with his nine dogs.

|| Joseph Stalin- a Russian leader that came to power with Leon Trotsky after that took over from the past Russian leader but he was always fighting Leon Trotsky over everything. He eventually had him exiled and had him assassinated.

|| This to me represent bullies that just argue with someone for the fun of it and when they are wrong they beat the person up. This has happened to me because someone has argued with me and when I was right they got mad and tried to beat me up.

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 * The hens rebellion- Napoleon told the hens that he needed 400 eggs from them and they got mad so they flew away and as they were flying they pooped eggs on napoleon or they just pooped on him I can not completely remember. Napoleon ordered the other animals not to give the hens any food and the hens lasted 5 days until they had to come back to get food. 5 hens died in the process.

|| The great purge- Stalin made a lot of people leave the party and he even executed some of them. He was trying to get rid of people that possibly might rebel and he tried to get rid of them by exiling them or by killing them.

|| This symbolizes to any form of rebellion like after Martin Luther king was assassinated and a whole bunch of people rebelled because they were mad that he died. It is basically like any other rebellion when people are killed or exiled because they were mad that something they did not like happened.

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 * Mr.Pilkington- a farmer next to animal farm who was believed to be a nice farmer and spent most of his time fishing or hunting depending on the time of the year. When Napoleon took over and eventually started to trade with humans one of the humans he traded with was Pilkington. Napoleon tried to sell a stack of lumber to Pilkington but at the last minute turned around and sold it to the other farmer Mr.Frederick and before Napoleon told the animals that Frederick was their enemy but after Napoleon double crosses Pilkington he told the animals that he was the true enemy, not Frederick.

|| The United States and the United Kingdom- Mr pilkington stood for the U.S. and the U.K. because Russia was trading with them a lot. The timber incident was when Stalin signed a non-aggression pact between him and Hitlers Germany, which is represented as Mr. Frederick the other neighbor who was always arguing with the other neighbor. Later however Hitler broke the pact and invaded Russia. The meeting at the end was the meeting between Stalin, the U.S. president at the time and the U.K. ambassador. In the meeting the discussed what they were going to do to win the war and set up battle plans. There was also a lot of tension between the three parties though just like when Napoleon and the neighbors were playing the card game and it erupted into an argument.

|| To me, this symbolizes some of the kids at my school. Like one time one of my friends decided to work on a project with somebody else instead of me because he was mad at me but it did not work at so he had to come to me and ask me for help, but because I am nice I helped and we had a great project. I know this happens a lot at school to everyone and I think everyone can agree with me that it is annoying.

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