Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Animal Farm Essay

In the novel "Animal Farm", there is a lot o commotion throughout the story. Napolean known as the boar, lies to the animals to get his own way, get more power, and to take over the farm. First of all, he lies to other animals so he can get his own way because he wants to be known and have publicity for being one of the good animals. In the text, it stated that "Napolean was a large Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation of getting his own way." Futhermore, he lies to get more power. Napolean must see his self as being the top animal on the farm. Every time someone do something wrong, look at him wrong, or talk about him, he will get his dogs. For example, "silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn." They are scared and know that Napolean has more power than them. However, he lies most of the time so he can become the leader and run the farm. Napolean can get into their head more faster because he's smart and they believes he tell the truth. But since Snowball wasn't there, I believe that the animals wouldn't believe Napolean, they probably would believe Snowball. I say so beacause in the text, they said "this arrangement would have worked well enough if it had not been for the disputes between Snowball and Napolean. These two disagreed at every point where disagreement was possible." In conclusion, the more the story go on, the further the conflict goes on and become chaotic. That's why Napolean lies need to be solved.

1 comment:

Constitution Melville said...

Solid yellows Desiree, and a good topic sentence (although it should be the first sentence, not the second).

Your reds need to be better connected to each yellow sentence. I was looking for specific examples of times when Napoleon lied (to get power, or run the farm, or look good, like you said in your yellows).