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7 Mitchell's Home Page 7 Mitchell's Blog Page 7 Mitchell's Animal Farm Page 7 Mitchell's Tale of Utopia 7 Mitchell's Web Quest 7 Mitchell's STEM project page Allegory - a story...each character/item/event represents or symbolizes something other than what it is... sometimes contains a hidden message. Satire - the use of sarcasm, irony, in a story...,to ridicule/poke fun at, criticism someones foolishness... Fable - a story that has a moral and it has animals as characters... that can speak... or possess human characteristics. || Karl Marx - A political philosopher in the 1800's. His beliefs ideas and concepts turned into what we know today as socialism and communism. He believed that the most effective society would have its citizens sharing equally in both the work and the goods that the work produces. || Jimmy Wales - The creator of Wikipedia. He believes in sharing information equally to everybody for free. That is why he is like Karl Marx. || || Boxer symbolized the entire workforce of the Russia. The Russian workforce was treated badly and they were overworked. || For me Boxer symbolizes the middle class who work the hardest and aren't at the top. || || To Orwell Moses represented the Russian Orthodox Church. || To me Moses represents a catholic missionary who preaches of a wonderful that all people who are good will go to. || lives easier. || To Orwell it was Stalin's 5 year plan which was designed to shorten the hours people worked. || To me it represents computers which are designed to make life easier. || . || To me it represents the persecution of the jews || || To Orwell it was the Russian collectivization, bringing all the peasant farms together into a community. || To me it could be community farming like in india where everone divides food evenly || Questions Ch 7-8 1. Napoleon makes it seem everything is fine by sending squealer out reading lists of production increases. 2. The hens are forced to give up because Napoleon cuts their rations and uses his dogs to enforce it. 3. It is used to keep the animals in line because anyone who conspires with Snowball is killed. 4. When Napoleon enforces his orders with the dogs he gains power through fear of them. 5. She sings because she feels that she wants to revolt, and she is becoming more like a leader. 6. Napoleon's reason is that the rebellion is over so the song isn't needed. The true reason is he doesn't want to be rebelled against. 7. He is lying to them when the pigs read off reports of product increase which isn't true, and when Boxer gets taken away to the knackers he says it's the vet's van. 8. It convinces the animals that everything good comes from Napoleon. 9. In the battle of the windmill the animals lose and in the others they win. Propaganda. Squeler saying jones will come back. "four legs good two legs bad" The lists of produce increases.
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 * Old Major - The most well respected animal on the farm. He believed man was evil...anything not animal was bad. Concept of Animalism - Animals should be free and the work they do should benefit all animals.
 * Boxer - the hardest working animal on the farm. He believed if he worked harder it would fix everything. His motto was " I will work harder". He also woke up an hour early to begin work.
 * Moses- was a story teller of a wonderful place called sugar candy mountain. He fled after the revolution but eventually came back and was allowed a small ration of beer.
 * The Windmill was a project that the animals under took too make their
 * The executions of the animals- several animals confessed to consorting with snowball or doing some othe[[image:http://onpoint.wbur.org/files/2011/10/1024_animals.jpg width="320" height="208"]]r crime || The Purges of 1936-1938 a series political repressions and persecution organizd by Stalin. It involved to large scale purge of the Communist party officials and giving the red army leadership. There was lots of high police surveillance and suspicion of people sabotaging the Communist efforts
 * Food Bins- the food bins were where everyone ate their food