Animal Farm as an allegory advocating literacy

[Geminimoon]

I just finished reading this wonderful story and would love some feed back.

Looking at the book as allegory advocating literacy, that is literacy as empowerment.

These are some questions that I have to answer for a class that I am taking.

1. What is the realtionship between literarcy as empowerment and the construction of a public school system?

2. What role does a public school system have in the sustainablity of democracy?

3. Are there different levels of literacy?

4. Whic level of literacy delivers personal and civic empowerment, and why?

5. What level of literacy does Squealor have, and why?
(Who are the "squealors" in the USA at this moment in time?)

6. What is the role of the teacher?

7.Which instructional strategies deliver literacy as personal and/ or civic empowerment, and why?

[The Atheist]

You might be better to place this in general, it's not really that relevant to AF, beyond the animals lack of literacy enabling them to be misled by Squealer on the Commandments, but it wasn't an educational issue - the animals simply lacked the brain-power to understand reading. Inunderstand what you're trying to do, but it doesn't really fit the book.

And the only question which is directly AF-related; Squealer clearly had a high literacy level, being able to change the commandments at will to suit Napoleon.

As to who is taking Squealer's part, that's way over the "no-politics" line.

[Logos]

Great topic. I think it will do better in the Gen Lit forum where more will see it :)