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.

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