Here are my notes from re-reading chapters 6 to 10 of the anthropomorphic novel Animal Farm, by following my last week’s blog:
Chapter 6:
- (P60) Although animals started building the windmill with even hard working labors, they still enjoyed it most of the time as they trusted they were working only for themselves and the result would not be stolen by any human beings.
- (P62) Boxer had been worked hard to make sure everything could be achieved through the building of the windmill.
- (P63) Napoleon started breaking earliest resolutions by allowing the engagement in trade with the neighboring farms.
- (P64) Mr Whymper, the solicitor from willingdon behaved as intermediary between animal farm and the outside world.
- (P65) humans’ hatred and anger are raised to the animal farm due to its prospering growth, they thought the windmill would be a failure, but they also appreciated the efficiency of how the animals were well managing their own affairs.
- (P66) when pigs started business with human beings, they moved into the farmhouse for their residence, on the excuse of working as the brain of the farm. They ate their meal in the kitchen, used the drawing room as a recreation room and slept in the bed, which broke the initial 4th of the seven commandments of the animal farm (P67).
- (P68) Only Benjamin had no interests with the build of the windmill.
- (P69) The windmill was in ruins due to the gale in a night with its thin layers, but Napoleon assumed it was snowball came in the night and destroyed their work of nearly a year. And animals still needed to carry on their work on the windmill.
Chapter 7:
- (P74) animals are in struggles with the need of grain since spring, a context of 400 eggs a week had been signed by Napoleon in the deal with Whymper.
- (P75) To punish the disagreement of hens, Napoleon ordered the hen’s rations to be stopped, and so none hens died at the same time in a day.
- (P77) Squealer pointed out that Snowball had sold himself to Frederick of Pinchfield, which the farm decided to attack the animal farm again. And Napoleon thought Snowball was Jones’ agent (P80) from the very beginning by ignoring other animals’ confusion.
- (P82) four pigs confessed they had been secretly get in touch with Snowball had been slaughtered by Napoleon’s dogs.
- (P85) Squealer announced the abolishment of the song of ‘Beats of England’ after pigs thought the rebellion had completed through making all the execution of ‘traitors’ to the animal farms.
Chapter 8:
- (P87) Animal realized pigs broke the 6th of the initial commandment through killings to achieve the exemption. Clover noticed the 6th commandment had been changed to ‘no animal shall kill any other animal without cause.’
- (P88) through the rebuild of the windmill project, animals somehow noticed they were been feed less than old Jones’ day:
- (P91) Napoleon kept good friendship with Mr Pilkington who owns the farm Foxwoods which caused more jealousy of Mr Frederick, who is the owner of Pilkington. It brings back Frederick to against them with guns and his men, to knock the windmill down which animals worked on it for 2 years long (p100).
- (P101) chapter 8 is talking about the battle of the windmill happened in the animal farm.
- (P102) The boar Napoleon starts wearing Mr Jones clothes after the windmill battle. (P103) At the same time squealer announced animals with alcohol drinking should be punished to death, whereas Napoleon asked Whymper to purchase some booklets on brewing and distilling for himself. And over night, Squealer’s act of changing the fifth commandment had been caught by the other animal.
Chapter 9:
- (P106) Even there are always adjustment of rations, animals believe the important is still bigger than the days controlled by Jones.
- (P107) Privilege and good education had only been assigned to new born pigs instead of any other animals.
- (P109-110) Sheep’s represent devotee and the rabble to the society led by Napoleon, therefore they always stoped the protest by the others in the story.
- (P112) Boxer eventually went fallen after overworked himself for over years.
- (P113-115) Napoleon and Squealer said Boxer would be sent to the hospital at Willington, instead, it had been noticed that he would be sent to the horse slaughterer.
- (P116) A scene shows animals from the farm try to beg for horses in charge of the cart not sending boxer to slaughterer in an emotional way, but the pleading had been brutally ignored.
Chapter 10:
- (P125) squealer was being seen eventually that he walked in a human being way, following up with a file of pigs walking with their hind legs.
- (P126) The scene shows a moment where animals finally start protesting against the hierarchy and horror by the pigs in the animal farm.
- (P127) The constantly change of commandment set by pigs reasoned everything they wanted to take advantages of from since the beginning of the story, and eventually they behaved more like humans to be in charge of the whole farm.
Here are my notes on the paper:
