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Animal Farm - Plot Line

Donavan White

Period 4, Orange

Kumaewa / Filer

3/1/13

Exposition

Characters

The Humans:

  • Mr. and Mrs. Jones
  • Mr. Pilkington
  • Mr Fredrick
  • Mr. Whymper

The Pigs / Boars:

  • Old Major (protagonist)
  • Napoleon (antagonist)
  • Snowball (antagonist)
  • Squealer (antagonist)

The Horses:

  • Boxer
  • Clover
  • Mollie

The Dogs:

  • Pincher
  • Bluebell
  • Jessie

Other animals:

  • Moses (the raven)
  • Benjiman (the donkey)
  • Muriel (the goat)
  • The Sheep
  • The Cat
  • The cows

Setting

The novel takes place in England in the early 19th century (1917 - 1945), on Manor Farm, which is renamed Animal Farm after the animals kick out Ms. and Mr. Jones, and the farmers. It is a typical barnyard

Rising Action

  • The novel starts off with a speech given by Old Major. Old Majors speech had foretold the future, his speech inspired the animals to rise up and rebel against the humans and obtain their freedom.
  • At the end of his inspirational speech, Old Major introduces the Beasts of England which was a song sung to him by his mom that he remembers. The Beasts of England is a song that tells a story of how the animals lives would be without humans.
  • Three nights later Old Major dies.
  • One Saturday, Mr.Jones went to Willingdon and got so drunk at the Red Lion that he did not come back to the farm till the next day. Mr.Jones nor his men did not feed the animals. The animals were tired and finally had enough. So they broke into the food shed and started to eat the food. Mr.Jones and the men came and started whipping the animals. The animals started fighting back, soon enough they got Mr. Jones and his men out of the food shed. After a moment the humans were off the farm land. The animals rebellion was achieved without them really knowing it at the time.
  • Now that man was gone the land belonged to the animals. The pigs (Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer) were known as the smartest animals on the farm which they were. Snowball had crossed out the name Manor Farm and wrote over it Animal Farm which would be the new name of the farm. The pigs also came up with 7 Commandments, based off of Old Majors speech of Animalism, which they had painted to the side of the big barn.
  • The animals have noticed have noticed that the milk and apples have been missing. Later on the mystery of were the milk and apples went was solved, Squealer had told the other animals that the milk and apples were taken for the pigs, because it contains a substance necessary to the well being of the pig, Squealer then tells the animals, no one among you wants to see Jones come back which makes the animals give in, meaning they let the pigs keep the milk and apples.

THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS

1) Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

2) Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

3) No animal shall wear clothes.

4) No animal shall sleep in a bed.

5) No animal shall drink alcohol.

6) No animal shall kill any other animal.7) All animals are equal.

Rising Action

  • Early October Jones and his men returned to the farm were they come back to reclaim the farm. This time, the animals are ready, Snowball devised a plan allowing them (the animals) to once again fight off Mr. Jones and his men. This battle was to be called Battle of the Cowshed. (Because the battle took place by a cow shed.)
  • Snowball had devised blue prints for a windmill, the windmill would do the animals work for them while they grazed and or studied. All of the animals were impressed with Snowball's idea except for napoleon who had peed on the drawing showing that he was not so impressed with Snowball's idea.
  • When the time came the animals held their meeting on weather or not to work on the windmill project. Snowball told the animals his reason to start the windmill project. Napoleon stood up and replied that the windmill was nonsense. When all votes were obviously going toward the windmill, Napoleon made a high pitched sound, which was a signal for nine dogs (the nine puppies that Napoleon took from Blue bell and Jessie to be "taught.") The nine vicious dogs chased snowball out of Animal farm, now that Snowball was gone Napoleon would become leader (no one dared oppose or challenge him).
  • Napoleon later on made the plan for the animals to build the windmill.
  • Now that the windmill was being built the animals need money to get supplies so Napoleon started to trade so they could finish building the windmill.
  • Pigs have started to live within the farm house and sleep on the bed(s) that Mr. Jones (a human) has slept on. (this goes against commandment number 4)
  • One November night, the winds were raging, the animals awoke and had found out that all their hard work was for nothing the windmill they built was ruined. Napoleon blamed Snowball for the incident. Napoleon orders the animals to start rebuilding the windmill and that the animals will work through winter, work in the rain and, work in the shine until the windmill is done.
  • One Sunday morning in the the next year, Squealer announced that the hens must surrender their eggs so that the farm can get food that can last them till summer, upon hearing this the hens were horrified and angered. To stop the pigs from obtaining the eggs they flew to the rafters and lay their eggs which broke to pieces when it fell to the floor.

Windmill symbolizes modernization within the farm

Rising Action

  • Napoleon had ordered all the animals to assemble in the yard. Napoleon surveyed the audience then called his pack of dogs. The dogs grabbed 4 pigs by the ears and dragged them up to the stage by Napoleons feet.
  • Napoleon made them confess to have been secretly in touch with Snowball. When they finished confessing they were executed (the dogs tore out their throats) Napoleon asked if there was anyone else who had anything to confess, three hens, one goose, three sheep and many more animals were slain/ executed just for being in contact with Snowball.
  • Commandment 6 was change from "No animal shall kill any other animal" to "No animal shall kill any other animal Without Cause."
  • The animals continue to rebuild the windmill
  • Fredrick and his men went on the Animal Farm one morning, the animals met him almost half way, his men opened fire on the animals then headed straight toward the windmill. Once they got to the windmill the men got blasting powder which blew up the windmill that the animals had to rebuild due to a incident "blamed on Snowball". The animals raged by this seen went out of their shocked state of mind and went straight onto the battle field were they (mainly boxer and a cow) had killed 4 people and chased out the rest.
  • Pigs came across alcohol (whiskey) and started drinking. Napoleon was considered dead but he was just really hung over. They broke another commandment and then changed it, "No animal shall drink alcohol" to "No animal shall drink alcohol to excess."
  • Food was even more scare but the pigs still lived in their luxurious life style.

Climax

  • Boxer the horse lungs gave out on him when transporting materials for the windmill. He was taken care of by Clover and the other horse along with Benjamin. Squealer had ordered a veterinarian to take care of Boxer at the hospital. But in actuality a animal slaughterer came instead of a veterinarian. On the side of the Van, that was supposed to take Boxer to the "veterinarian", it said, "'Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon. Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal. Kennels Supplied.' (Paragraph 225 pg. 36)."Most of the animals especially Clover ran after the van trying to stop the van and to get Boxer out but he wasn't strong enough to open the doors and was carried away. Squealer then told the animals about Boxer's death and how that he "wasn't" taken by horse slaughter but a vet who forgot to paint over the words.

Falling Acton

  • Napoleon now president of animal farm. Moses the rave comes back.
  • Years pass, the Rebellion is a long lost memory that only a few animals on the farm remember.
  • The pigs add things to commandments such as "All animals are equal" which was changed to "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than other." Or a motto like 2 legs bad 4 legs good which was changed to 2 legs good 4 legs better.

Denounment

  • In the end none of the farm animals could see a difference between the pigs and the humans. (the pigs could walk like the humans.
  • The animals work more harder then in Jones days, everything was different and more harder on the animals.
  • At the end we see that the animals change and go against laws of Animalism established by Old Major

In George Orwell's short novel "Animal Farm" the pigs and dogs have more power than the rest of the animals. The pigs had luxurious lives while the other animals suffered from hunger and lived in a state of poverty. In the story where it shows the inequality between the animals is when the pigs change a commandment (they change commandment 7) it started from "All animals are equal" to "...All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others (Paragraph 253 page 40)." They changed it so what ever they wanted or said to the lower class was acceptable and the other animals had to agree to do anything they said no matter what. The pigs had abused their power to take advantage of the lower class and they didn't know it because the pigs manipulated the animals minds into thinking everything was right and that there lives were better the way it was governed now then during Mr. Jones.

Citations

  • Orwell, George. Animal Farm;. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954. Print.
  • http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=farm&ex=2#ai:MP900400824|
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