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I have a question....it may be kind-of stupid...but since when could the humans understand what the animals (pigs) were saying? If I remember correctly, at the beginning the humans could not understand the animals, and by the end the pigs were having conversations in meetings with the humans....?
I think that the pigs taught themselves to talk from the books they found in the house
As far as when the pigs disobeyed the commandments were changed and when other animals did they were slaughtered. That is how the world is run today, but maybe not to the same degree. Today famous people are treated so much differently than the rest of the population and I beleive that this is one reason why our world is not equal. Famous people are let off with a simple warning when they may speed on the highway, while the general public is forced to pay a wopping 50$ at the least. Movie stars and athletes beleive that they can do what ever they want because we let them do what they want, for example Coby Bryant. They are never called on when they are being selfish or stingy, wich they always are. They and we act like they are the best thing that ever hit the earth, just as the pigs were treated, they thought that they should be treated on a higher level than the rest of the farm so the rest of the farm did treat them as if they were better. Even Benjamin, he new what was going to happen all along, I understand why he never said anything out of the fear of being slaughtered, but the stupidity of the rest of the farm was intolerable.
Lexey--I agree entirely....at first I thought to myself "How can the other animals not realize that the pigs have complete control over them?" but I guess they just don't have the intelligence to figure it out. I was also really mad that the ones who did figure it out didn't do anything. But then again, I guess it is understandable after the series of slaughtering done to the animals who did something wrong.
I also agree with Lexey. Celebrities think they can do whatever they wany because they have the money to pay for it. The pigs think they can do whatever they want because there isn't anyone to stop then, because any animal that objects would be considered a traitor and slaugtered instantly
Also what Heidi said about the slaughtering, boxer was the only one strong enough to kill the dogs, but his motto was "Napolean is always right," so he would never rebel against the pigs
the animals thought that they couls trust what the pigs said, but didn't relize their mistake until it was too late
Exactly, and the reason any animal that objects would be considered a traitor is because the animals on the farm started out believing that overthrowing the farm was a good idea and they were being brain washed into the fact that it was still a good system they had going. The sheep and most of the farm would believe anything that Napoleon said and that is also what happens in our country today, there are tons of people who beleive everything they see on comercials and that is exactly what happens in Animal Farm.
Ya and that's just it that makes me so mad...and our government can never work with situations like this happening. I wish WE could run the government....;)
and yet this is happening in our government right now. so people believe whatever they are told, like the situation in Iraq. Some people strongly think that we are winning, and some think just the opposite
but thats just it no matter what there is always corruption in the government along with rumors and other stuff that our world and government would function a lot better without
and its impossible to completely get rid of corruption, there will always be some form of it, as shown in Animal Farm. They thought they had the "perfect" system of government, but its leeaders were corrupt
Ya I totally agree that there will always be corruption in a system of government. But I do think that it could definitely be better than how it is in the book or how our current govrenmnet is.
intro: ok so on a first note i didnt really connect with the book as heidi (i think) said; im not really into politics either. The whole part of how each animal represented someone in history kind-of confused me more because i dont know much about Russian History..
But anyways..
i dont understand why they animals could all of a sudden rule over the farm. if the pigs hated being cared for my the humans why didnt they take charge before? i know that they only thought about it after major had that dream but seriously that wouldnt really happen since humans were in charge before they could still over power the animals with weapons and machines so i just dont understand. i mean does the farm symbolize like a city or whatever in Russia???
i think every thing you guys just said is totally right
Its kind of like if someone is given alot of power they abuse it and make life hell for others.
see you all at school on tuesday