Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Chapters 9-10 of Animal Farm high lights

  • At the beginning, when the laws of Animal Farm was first formulated, the retiring age had been fixed for horses and pigs at twelve, for cows at fourteen, for dogs at nine, for sheep at seven, and for hens and geese at five.
  • They wanted to save up money to get another windmill.
  • In April, animal farm was proclaimed a Republic, and it became and necessary to elect a president.
  • Muriel, Bluebell, Jessie, Pincher, and Jones all had died.
  • The farm had gotten more organized and it had been enlarged by 2 fields, which had been bought by Mr. Pilkingston.
  • One day in the early summer Squealer ordered the sheep to follow him, and led them out to a piece of waste ground at the other end of the farm, which had become overgrown with birch saplings.

At the end of the book when Napoleon got a card playingcards with Mr. Pilkingston, the pigs got a glimpse of the man and the men saw the pigs.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Question #1 (Animal Farm)

1. Describe how THREE of the propaganda techniques listed above apply to Animal Farm. Make your examples as specific as possible; please include chapter references.

My Answer: Plains folks is on of the propoganda names for this. The animals do support each other in alot of things. They all stick together and fight. Black and white thinking is one of them to. They always are against it or for something. They wanted to fight the people coming onto there farm and some agreed and some didnt. Transfer is one too. They made their own flag for the farm.

2.Choose TWO of the propaganda techniques listed above and give a real life example of each.

My answer: Name calling is one. It think everyone has swore before. Lots of people use bad words and its just a normal thing. Appeal to emotion is also one. Lots of people show there emotions by crying or being mad. Its a human thing. Lots of people cry sometimes and its just normal.