Question 8: Animal Farm

Dear Napoleon,
Hi. I'm Angela from TCIS. There are so many questions that I wanted ask you while reading this novel, Animal Farm. Before I read this book, I saw a video about Stalin, the Russian Revolution leader. So while reading this book, I found out how similar they were. After I read this book, I asked my dad about Stalin and Napoleon from this novel, Animal Farm. And my dad told me that Orwell wrote this novel by using the idea of Stalin at that time. But actually, he wasn't punished or killed or anything by doing this even though it seemed like it will be a huge problem. You are mean. You are bad. You should not live like that. You should change, I mean you must change. And learn from the real leaders. You are not a leader. This is what I thought while reading this book. However, I found out that this reveals the reality of our society. The reality revealed in this story is depressing and makes me want to not believe what is revealed. Napoleon, I still don't agree with you and I want you to change.
Sincerely, Angela

Question 7: Animal Farm

The most memorable setting I have found is the farm with the windmill being built. Because of windmill, there are many incidents happening to the animals. Bad things happen, but they feel happy. For the animals, windmill is a big deal. The animals have decided to make a windmill for better living, and this windmill’s size or height was not told, but I can imagine the machine working beside the farm. It is made out of stone, probably grey, and cements were used. It would look like a small tower with fan-like wings going around on its head. The windmill was broken down a several times and had to be rebuilt. Every time that happened, my emotions were similar to the animals in the book. I was sad when I read about rebuilding windmill over and over again. The animals are too poor. They don't know anything. They just build windmill because they think they have to and good to them.

Question 6: Animal Farm

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others (p.81).”

This quote was the most shocking quote to me. There are so many reasons why I think this quote is the shocking quote. All animals are equal. It is said by Napoleon. He makes the other animals think the same way as he thinks, which is very negative and bad. This quote makes me hate Napoleon. This quote shows that everything had gone back to start, because the goal for the animals, no longer for pigs, were to live without human and not human-like. The animals connect to people who work in this world. All animals are not equal. That is what actually he thinks as the leader of the animals.

Question 5: Animal Farm

This novel is really depressing. Every moment is depressing and never happy. He drank all the time and didn’t even feed animals regularly. Animals couldn’t bear their conditions of living anymore, so they decided to rebel and take over the Manor Farm. When they succeeded to do so, the renamed the farm and looked forward for a pleasant, happy life. The harvest was the greatest and some animals started to learn how to read. Even when humans came back to take over their past farms, they all worked together and had beaten them. However, as a new leader, Napoleon came along everything started to change and the farm animals were being treated worse than they were by humans. He changes everything. The story ends all depressed again. This novel more saddens me because I can see that this is the real world. It shows the reality. And it is very depressing. Many, not just a few but very many, people are treated really badly when others are so rich and powerful by controlling over the weak and helpless. Also, even when there are these good and great ideas, such as communism, created to brighten the world, they always end up failing by some kind of reasons. After reading this book, I found out how cruel the world and the people are.

Question 4: Animal Farm

The climax is the end of this book. In the beginning of the book, when Mr. Jones was the owner of the farm, everything was so out of control, and that is why the animals rebelled against and took over the farm. They started out really good; however, as time went on, everything started to change. When Napoleon becomes dictator and treats animals differently, apart from the idea they started out, “all animals are equal". It is kind of unique that the climax of this book is at the end, but I think that makes the readers pay more attention to this story. Many animals couldn’t read and that was really useful for the leaders to control over them. As they changed this and that, it kept on becoming as it was in the beginning. This means, that for the pigs to be all bad, they have to be like human rulers; humans are bad. This doesn’t mean that all humans are bad, but dictators or some of the leaders of ours. The name of the farm started out as “Major Farm” and when the rebellion occurred, the name was changed to “Animal Farm.” At the end, the farm changes to "Animal Farm."

Question 3: Animal Farm

Napoleon is the pig who emerges as the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. He uses his loyal attack dogs to keep control of the rest of the animals. He is like the dictator of the Animal Farm. I don’t like Napoleon because just because he is smarter than the other pigs, he uses his skills of literacy to fool others and control them. He is representing Joseph Stalin. Snowball is the pig that is intelligent and eloquent to challenge Napoleon for the power over the Animal Farm after the Rebellion. Snowball is less brutal in a way of treating other animals. I like Snowball because he challenged the dictator, which is not an easy thing to do. He was smart enough to persuade others and sometimes passionate. He is representing Leon Trotsky. Boxer is the cart horse who is really strong. He does a great role in completing the windmill. He is also loyal to his leaders, and sometimes too loyal to look like a food who doesn’t know anything except for following orders. He allows the pigs to make all the decisions for him saying, “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right.” Although he is really helpful, powerful, and loyal, he doesn’t have leadership or the ability to come to the conclusion of something by himself. Squealer is the pig who is a great talker. He spreads Napoleon’s propaganda and bullshits among the other animals in the farm. One word to describe his character is “liar.” He always gives the wrong information and false statistics pointing to the farm’s success so that others can think that Napoleon’s the greatest. I hate Squealer the most, although it is a common scene in our lives. I just don’t like characters that spread rumors and make everyone think the wrong idea on something. I think Boxer is the worst character.

Question 2: Animal Farm

The novel Animal Farm, may seem like a story that is enjoyable when it is hiding its real meaning by symbolizing. It tells us that “communism” in this case is not right. Current situations in the world relates to the book like this. These past years, many communist countries have turned and are turning back toward democracy. Soviet Union had changed to USSR after its destruction. Even China is accepting some of the principles of democracy; however, there is a single country left untouched, North Korea. What is happening in North Korea is what had happened in the Soviet Union in the past, but they haven’t learned by seeing the failure. Although the president of the North Korea, Kim Jeong Il, would never accept it, North Koreans should read the book and learn something from it. This novel doesn’t actually shed the light of “how” the problem could be resolved, but it shows the frightful result of what might happen, if it keeps on going this way. Like what I've talked about, there will be a lot of current situations that are realated with this book.