Sam,+Hyeunjin

Discussion Leaders for //Animal Farm//

For your assigned section, you need to be prepared to discuss the items below. You must attempt to have multiple examples of your assigned discussion topic, **providing specific page numbers and quotations**. In order to prepare for the discussion, you need to write-up your findings on the designated wiki page. You should divide up the work equally, and **clearly label your contributions to the wiki page, for example (Mr. Stephens)**. You are encouraged to check your partner's work for accuracy, but you will receive a grade on your specific contributions. Your grade will be based on accuracy, thoroughness, participation, and knowledge of the text.

Discussion topics for each chapter:
 * 1) summary - you will simply provide a verbal summary
 * 2) allegorical connections (What is the 'below the surface meaning?)
 * 3) symbolism (**see below** for symbols to look for)
 * 4) satire (How is Orwell making fun of and making a point about the object of his satire? **See information below for help**.)
 * 5) character change, focusing on the pigs (How do the pigs change?)
 * 6) twisting of logic and history to serve political ends (What examples do you see?)
 * 7) use of propaganda/doublespeak (look for slogans, songs, etc.); EXPLAIN the significance; **use the handout**
 * 8) abuse of power (How do some abuse power at the expense of others?)
 * 9) questions: develop a minimum of five (total) interpretive and evaluative questions based on the section (see below for question writing help)

=**Samuel Han**=

1. Summary
Many years pass from Boxer death and very few animals remember. The pigs are now complete rulers of Animal Farm. The windmill was now used for not electricity but for milling corn. Th thoughts of all the luxurious water, heating, and etc were gone. They now have started building ANOTHER windmill. The animals start to wonder if their life was any better than before Jones was kicked out, but they can't remember. Squealer teaches the sheep (albeit secretly) a new song which is later revealed to be "four legs good, two legs better". This was made so that the pigs, when they were seen walking on their hind legs, they wouldn't be subjected, and later the Seven Commandments were all put away and summed up into one phrase "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". The pigs then started to wear clothes and have whips in their trotters. Not only that, they invited the fellow human farmers from neighboring farms to see their farm that they created. The farmers and the pigs go have a party with singing, while the other animals spy on this meeting. Farmer Pilkington gives a speech on how great Animal Farm is and congratulates Napoleon. Napoleon however first claims that the hoof and the horn would be taken out of their flag and just be a green flag. Not only that, he has stated that he changed the name back to Manor Farm which was the original name before. The animals are all shocked to see this, and they see the pigs and humans arguing together about a problem with the game of cards they were playing. But they cannot tell the difference between pig and man.

2. Allegorical Connections

 * Pigs are living nice lives while the animal's lives aren't changing
 * Squealer was so fat that he could with difficulty see with his eyes. (127)
 * the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer-except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. (129)
 * The three new horses that the farm had were like the "shock brigade" and were loyal and hardworking for the government.
 * They accepted everything that they were told about Animalism. (128)
 * .........but it was doubtful whether they understood very much of it. (128)
 * The five-year plan and the windmill both were expecting good results but were less than expected, they are building another windmill as a result
 * The windmill, however had not after all been used for generating electrical power.
 * But the luxuries of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream, the stall with electrical light and hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were no longer talked about.
 * The animals' lives weren't changing at all and they were still both hungry and tired.
 * They were generally hungry, they slept on straw and drank from the pool.
 * Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jone's expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now. They could not remember.

**3. Symbols**

 * whip on trotter-dictating power of Stalin
 * the 2 windmills-the 2 five-year plans
 * human items-Stalin turning into a totalitarian dictator

**sam**
irony- the pig started to walk on hind legs ridicule- animals start to wear clothing irony- no creature called an other creature "Master" (131) but they are in fact.

=Hyeunjin=

irony - pg 128-129 pg128- " The farm was more prosperous now, and better organized..." pg129-"Things had been better or worse than now..."

**5. Character Change**

 * The pigs by now are dictators of this farm and is trying to only benefit themselves than the other animals.
 * The pigs are slowly turning into their former masters: turning more human

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

**6. twisting of logic and history to serve political ends (What examples do you see?)**
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others" this statement does not make sense at all as in the sense of how can some animals be more equal than others if they're all equal?

=HyeunjinJin=

7.use of propaganda/doublespeak (look for slogans, songs, etc.); EXPLAIN the significance; **use the handout**
page 133 -> “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” this quote is significant in a way that it shows there are not everyone has the same equality, some have more advantages than others. Even though they have been dealing with the idea of “equality” they are still inequality going on. To have the idea of equality, they kicked out the farmer Johns and they even avoided doing thing what he used to do. But it is quite disappointing that did not quite work very well. They are equality but some exception to it as well.

pg.131 "One day in early summer squealer ordered the sheep to follow him, and led them out to a piece of waste ground at the other end of the farm, which had become overgrown ith birch saplings. The sheep spent the whole day there browsing at the leaves under Squealer's supervision."

9.questions: develop a minimum of five (total) interpretive and evaluative questions based on the section (see below for question writing help)
1. What would you have your nation to believe in communism, socialism etc.. 2. Comparing the napoleon and the pigs how are they alike with Stalin and the pigs in the farm ? 3. What does the windmill represent in this section 4. Do you agree with the idea, four legs good two legs bad? 5. Is Mr. Pilkington representing any of the historical characters?