Monday 5 November 2012

Quarter 4st(chapter 1~5)- Animal Farm

Synopsis
-The animals work at a backbreaking pace to farm enough food for themselves and to build the windmill.
-Napoleon changes his mind, he agrees with animals build windmill.
-A fearsome storm descends on Animal Farm, knocking down roof tiles, an elm tree, and even the flagstaff.
-Napoleon speech, and now in full control of the farm and the pigs have taken over.
-Windmill should build be stronger and bigger than before.
-The hens rebel, and Napoleon responds by cutting their rations entirely. The hens rebel, and Napoleon responds by cutting their rations entirely.
-Mr. Frederick attacks Animal Farm with a large group of armed men.
-Several of the animals are killed, and Boxer sustains a serious injury.
-The animals are disheartened, but a patriotic flag-raising ceremony cheers them up and restores their faith somewhat.
-The seven commandments are secretly changed.
-Pigs drink alcohol, wear clothing, sleep in beds and walk on two feet.
-Moses the raven returns to the farm.
-One night the animals watched napoleon and Mr. Pilkington though the farm house windows and could no longer tell which was pig and which was human.
Characters introduction
Old Major - The boar who always gives speeches for all animals.
Napoleon - The leader of the animals. He is a powerful pig. In the second half of Animal Farm, he in full control of the animals in farm and the pigs has taken over.
Snowball - The pig who challenges Napoleon for control of animal farm. But he fault.
Boxer - He is a hones cart-horse. He always follows with Napoleon. His two mottoes are ''I will work harder.'' and ''Napoleon is always right.'' Finally, he dead, because the heavy hurt from the war between person and animals.
Mr. Jones - The owner of the Animal Farm before the animals stage their Rebellion and establish Animal Farm. He always drunk.
Point of view
The author maybe want to tell us lots of different ideas, such as describing the animals want to change the unfair control form person, they made plan and build windmill. The leader pigs the pigs establish themselves as the ruling class in the new society. Finally, they won. In the novel, we can see the pigs drink alcohol, sleep in beds and walking on two feet. They forgot the seven rules.
Setting
(part 2)The setting is the windmill broken and Napoleon changes his ideas to agree with use money to repair and re-build a stronger and bigger windmill. He has in full control of the Animal Farm.
Notables about the writer’s style
The writer describe the reform by animals to change their fortune, the story likes an allegory. Also the author use some satires to emphasize on his writing themes.
Statement of themes
In the second part of Animal Farm , Napoleon has in full of the Animal Farm. But pigs drink wine, sleep in beds and walk on two feet. Some ways to say, we can not pick out who was pig and humans. The author want to show us the differences between animals and humans. Another theme is abuse of power, Napoleon ejected Snowballs from the animals' group.

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