Jasmine,+Jenny

=__Chapter 7__=
 * Jasmine Suk

1. Summary **
 * Napoleon told the animals that the failure of windmill project was Snowball’s falt
 * Squealer keeps giving speeches on glory of sacrifice
 * Napoleon decides to sell four hundred eggs a week
 * hens disagree and rebel
 * Napoleon says that Snowball visited the farm at night, sabotaging animals’ efforts
 * Also says that he can detect Snowball’s presence everywhere
 * One day, Squealer announces that Snowball has sold himself to Mr. Frederick’s farm, Pinchfield, and that Snowball has been having a deal with Jones from the beginning.
 * Squealer tells animals that Snowball also wanted animals to be defeated at the battle.
 * The animals hear these words in shock. They remember Snowball’s heroism and recall that he received a medal.
 *  But Napoleon and Squealer convince the others that Snowball’s apparent bravery was simply a part of his plan to betray the animals.
 * They also work to convince the animals of Napoleon’s superior bravery during that battle. So vividly does Squealer describe Napoleon’s alleged heroic actions that the animals are almost able to remember them.
 * Four days later, Napoleon convenes all of the animals in the yard. With his nine huge dogs ringed about him and growling, he tells animals to confess their crime.
 *  But four pigs and numerous other animals meet their deaths, including the hens who rebelled at the proposal to sell their eggs.
 * The terrible bloodshed leaves the animals deeply shaken and confused.
 * Some of the animals begin to sing “Beasts of England,” but Squealer appears and explains to sing a replacement song, written by Minimus.

** 2. Allegorical Connections **

- The failure of windmill project justified humans’ disrespect for the animals and their belief in their own superiority.
 * topple of windmill project
 * failure of Stalin’s Five-Year Plans for agriculture

- When Stalin’s Five-Year Plans resulted in the starvation of millions of people, Soviets masked their problems below the surface and kept them from the eyes of the rest of the world. Like Soviets, the pigs of Animal Farm make plans to keep the human farmers from learning about their difficulties.
 * Pigs trying to keep humans from learning their difficulties
 * Soviets determined to mask their problems

- Those animals who show even a little disapproval toward Napoleon, such as the hens who oppose the selling of their eggs, meet with death. And Napoleon asks animals to confess what they did with Snowball. Even if they did nothing, some animals confessed their crime that didn’t even happen, and they also met with death. Similar to this, after forcing Trotsky out of Russia, Stalin continued forcing citizens to “confess” their complicity with Trotskyist or other anti-Stalin powers. Many cases, people simply admitted activities they never engaged just to escape torture. But after confessing, these people were sentenced to death.
 * Windmill becomes an important measure of farm’s competence, and its collapse gives great impact to the pigs’ prestige in the farm community.
 * Soviet Russia’s industrial setbacks threatened its position as an equal to the leading nations of the world and as a role model of communist revolution.
 * Napoleon’s plan of reflecting exiled Snowball into a despicable enemy
 * Stalin’s abuse of the exiled Trotsky

- This is just how Stalin created his false image among the citizens that he is superior, and blamed Trotsky if something went wrong
 * Napoleon says he can detect the presence of Snowball everywhere, and whenever things go wrong, he turns the blame on Snowball


 * 3. Symbolism **

Napoleon: Stalin Snowball: Trotsky Boxer: naive working class Squealer: propaganda Windmill project: Stalin’s Five Year Plan
 * Pigs’ manipulation of the other animals for their own gain

Animal Farm: corrupt government Humans: other nations (U.S) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> ** 4. Satire ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Irony

Irony Irony Satire -> It is a satire that pigs are making excuses to stay comfortable. Pigs eventually become like humans, who they hated for not working and only taking what animals produced.
 * Animals confess things that didn’t even happen
 * Napoleon is making connection with Snowball and Mr.Jones, so that animals will grow anger towards Snowball.
 * Napoleon contracts to sell four hundred eggs a week
 * > one of Old Major’s complaints was humans focused on egg selling.
 * pigs, who once instigated all animals to rebel began to rewrite history, manipulate Seven Commandments, and produce false vision of reality to animals.

Satire - Squealer gives animals a replacement song, that expresses patriotism and glorifies Animal Farm. Pigs are worried about animals growing discontent to the Animal Farm that they stop them from singing “Beasts of England”, which is a song written for rebellion. Now pigs are afraid that the animals might rebel against them.


 * 5. Character Change** ** (How did the pigs change?)

Over this chapter, pigs begin to become more violent. Right after exiling Snowball, and spreading propaganda to the animals, animals of the farm were not really convinced by Napoleon and Squealer. To maintain obedience of the animals, Napoleon and Squealer start creating more propaganda and Napoleon blames Snowball for everything that goes wrong. Squealer, on the other hand, tells false stories that make Napoleon look great. Napoleon also use violence to those who rebel against him. He uses his nine dogs to kill animals who rebel or disagree to him. **

**Jenny Youn**
 * 6. Twisting of logic and history to serve political ends**
 * "This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half." (p. 84) This does not make any sense and it can not be logically possible. The pigs are twisting logic by detesting that working on sundays is voluntarily, but as it is voluntarily, it involves consequences such as rations reduced b halves. The pigs are theoretically threatening the animals that if they don't "volunteer" to work on sundays, they will starve them. THe pigs are only trying to manipulate the animals therefore granting themselves more political power


 * "Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin." (p. 84) Here, the humans are trying to portray themselves as the far more superior animal than the animals themselves. The humans are twisting logic and blaming the wind instead of Snowball knowing that it is false accusations on natural factors in order for the animals to seem weaker than they actually are. The humans are trying to justify themselves as the superior using silly justifications.


 * "One Sunday morning Squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. The price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier." (p. 86, 3rd page) Napoleon is yet again, twisting logic, by trying to relate and convince to the animals that giving four hundred eggs, with the potential of hatching into beautiful chicks that could later develop onto chickens, to the man will help the animals have a better life. This is illogical because there is no connection between peace and the murdering of four hundred eggs.


 * 7. Propaganda and doublespeak**
 * Napoleon orders for the sheep to spread word that the Animal Farm is actually producing more and more crops instead of revealing the truth which is that they are slowly declining in their production of goods (p. 85): "NOW HOWEVER A FEW SELECTED ANIMALS, MOSTLY SHEEP WERE instructed TO REMARK CASUALLY IN HIS HEARING THAT RATIONS HAD BEEN INCREASED."


 * Animal Farm song: Animal farm, Animal Farm, Never through me shalt thou come to harm! (p. 97) The Beasts of England is banned and so, this new song is composed and used as propaganda by Napoleon throughout the nation.


 * 8. Abuse of power**
 * Napoleon is using the power he has to control how much rations a certain individual receives: "He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death.


 * Napoleon executes his power to all the animals displaying how he can use it just by murdering masses of animals with almost any saying as a justification. "They were all slain on the spot. And so the tale of confessions and executions went on until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was a heavy smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones." (p. 93)

- What do you think about the treatment of hens after they tried rebelling against Napoleon?
 * 9. Questions:**

- Why is there a decline in the production of their agriculture goods?

- What is the true purpose of Napoleon for building such wind mills?

- Are there animals that are actually starting to think of what Napoleon is doing to them?

- What are the animals questioning and why are they confused?