Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Q&A'S to Chapter 4,5,6,7,8,9,10

12-Q: What futher examples of teh difference between the pigs and the other animals occur in these two chapters?
A: The pigs show leadership.

13-Q: What are Napoleon's ideas about education?
A: He believes that education is neccesary.

14-Q: How is Squealer able to coinvince the other animlas to accept whatever Napoleon decides?
A: He is able to convince them because he can create stories and he is very convincing.

15-Q: Describe the Battle of The Cowshed.
A: it was violent and a sheep died but it was succesfull for the animals.

16-Q: What was Snowball's part in this battle?
A: He was liekt he leader because he led them to do what they needed to do.

17-Q: Where is Napolean during the battle?
A: Napoleon didn't do anything. He stood back and commanded.

18-Q:What is the significance of the guns placement at the foot of the flagpole?
A: The gun signifies the battle for the animals victory and tehre hard times. It signifies teh success of the Battle of The Cowshed.


19-Q: Why does Mollie run away from the farm?
A: Mollie runs away from the farm because she wants to be with humans and wear bows and eat sugar.

21-Q:Explain the windmill controversyfrom Napolean's point of view.
Napoleon says that there should be no windmill. He strongly disagrees with the windmill.

22-Q:What changes does Napoleon make after his dogs chase Snowball off the farm?
A: Napoleon chooses to to make the windmill and make work harder.

23-Q: Why don't the otehr animals protest Napoleon's decisions?
A: The other animals don't protest Napoleon's decisions because he has the vicious dogs on his side.

24-Q: Note how the animals now arrange themselves when they enter the barn to recieve there orders as compared to the description in Chapter one.
A: They group by species. So that they can recieve there orders like that.

25-Q: What is the importance of the dogs accompanying Squealer when he comes to talk to the animals?
A: It shows that he has power. It shows force. It shows that he controls what happens, through Napoleon.

26-Q: Image how things might have been different had Snowball gotten rid of Napoloen. What do you think Snowball would have done differently?
A: I think Snowball would have been less harsh. Would never have gone on a power streaks. He wouldn't have used the dogs to make it so he was always right, when he was wrong.

27-Q: How much work are the animals doing?
A: The animlas are doing a lot of work because they have to get the windmill done in time.

28-Q: Why does Napoleon decide to engage in trade with Neighboring farms?
A: Because the farm can't afford to let it go undone. They are starving.

29-Q:How do the animlas react?
A: They are shocked but decide it is neccesary to do such things.

30-Q:How is the windmill destroyed? Why does Napoleon blame Snowball?
A: The windmill is destroyed by the wind that knocked it over. Napoleon blames snowball because he wants to amke Snowball an even worse person.

31-Q: Why does Napoleon insist the windmill must be rebuilt immediately?
A: He insists this because he wants to prove that he is a better person. That the farm is still succeeding.

32-Q: Why does Napoleon order that the Hen's eggs be sold?
A: Because the farm needs more grain and four-hundred eggs a week is what they need to get the grain they need to survive till the summer.

33-Q: How does Napoleon react when the hens rebel against his orders?
A: He makes it where anyone who takes them food or any supply will be punished. He needs the eggs.

35-Q: Explain why the animals confessed to being traitors. Or is tehre any explanation?
A: The animals confess to being tratiors because they believe that they deserve what the otehr animals got from them.

36-Q: Why does Napoleon order teh animals to stop singing "Beasts of England?"
A: He orders them to stop singing Beasts of England because he believes that the rebellion is over and that it is no longer worthy to sing of rebellion.


37-Q:What purpose is served by the production figures Squealer reads to the animals?
A: The purpose is to show that the animals are not living off worse then before they rebeled against Jones.

38-Q: How is Napoloen more and more like a typical dictator?
A: He is taking over the animals natural rights. He is making it where they can't do certain things. He's becoming like Jones.

39-Q: Describe the sale of the stack of lumber. How does Napoloen outwit himself?
A: Napoloen outwits himself by making sure he had money upfront aside from a pay-me-back and when he does that he gets counterfeit money instead.

40-Q: What makes the battle against Fredericks's men different from the Battle of the Cowshed?
A: Fredricks's men had guns this time and were able to kill more then last time.

41-Q: Why do the men blow up the windmill?
A: The men blow up the windmill because it shows that they are stronger then the animals. It shows that they can control the animals after all.

42-Q: The animals celebrate as victory, but at what cost?
A: The cost is the animals that died in the Battle. and the windmill.

43-Q: Describe the Whiskey incident. Why did Orwell make this scene somewhat humorous?
A: The Whiskey incident is when Napoleon drinks to much alcohol and is on his way to his deathbed but he soon recovers.

44-Q: Why are the animlas so easily fooled, even when the find Squealer with a ladder and white paint besides the barn at night?
A: The animals are easily fooled because they have not been where things are learned and they don't remeber much. Plus, the dogs can scare the thoughts that keep them from listening away from there mindds.

45-Q: What is happening to Boxer?
A: Boxer is becoming weaker because of his age.

46-Q: What are the living conditions like for all the animals except the pigs and the dogs?
A: The living conditions are harsh considering the pigs and dogs can take what they want because they have the vicious dogs to control the other animals.

47-Q: Why does Naploen allow Moses to return and to tell his stories about SugarCandy Mountain?
A: Napoloen allows Moses to come back and tell his stories because it keeps the animals working hard and it keeps them from realizing what an jerk and over-powerful man Napoloen is becoming. It keeps them from having thoughts of rebellion.

48-Q:What happens to Boxer? How do the animals except it?
A:Boxer over works himself and a boulder fell on him. He started to become better when they sent him away to the "Vetrenarians", but in reality they sent him away to the Slaughterer's. The animlas except the fact that the Slaughterer's van was sold and the name hadn't been painted over just yet.

49-Q: Of what kind of person does Benjamin remind you? Give some examples. What is your opinion of such people?
A: Benjamin reminds me of the melancholy and pessimistic people because he doesn't change his point of view after the rebellion. My opinion, in this case, is that he was right, because Napoloen and the rest of the animals start to make harsh ways for the lower animals.

50-Q:What changes have the years brought to the farm?
A: The changes are that Jones has died. And it may not be as bad as Jones's time but it's well on it's way there.

51-Q: How does Orwell make fun of Bureaucracy?
A: Orwell makes fun of Bureaucracy because he exagerates the way Napoloen is becoming human.

52-Q:How do the animals feel about their social order, their farm?
A: The animls feel that there farm is better off then it was before the rebellion but they are still not getting what they deserve from the upper animals.

53-Q: What drastic actions do the pigs use to shatter animals' complacency?
They kill off the animals, because they betrayed laws.

54-Q: All seven commandments are erased. What si the new commandment and how has it been true from the beginning?
A: The new commandment is All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others. It has been true form the beginning because the pigs took over in the beginning and they started taking more and more of the animals rights away as the went. They started to believe that they were better then everyone else.

55-Q: At the conference with neigboring farmers, what new changes does Napoleon poin out?
A: Napoloen points out that the farm is now again called "Manor Farm" and that they are now all powerful.

56-Q: What happens to the pigs appearence?
A: The pigs appearance starts to change when they start walking on their hind legs. And at the end the pigs become human. Their faces changign completely.