Animal Farm Connections and Questions

When finishing Animal Farm, I came to know a couple solid connections and a few questions that I feel you should know and that I should know. First off, how in the world did no animal at all express their feelings and thoughts to the others? I mean, seriously, the book hinted at at least three of the characters raising suspicion to the pigs and their tyranny. Throughout the book, they gradually broke all seven commandments and replaced the summarized version with something that only benefitted themselves. I can see, however, that no animal could read to well except for Clover and Benjamin, and even they seemed frightened at speaking against the pigs. To my surprise, Napoleon played their cards just right. Blaming problems on Snowball, making the litter of nine pups his slaves, and quelling every complaint by making Boxer who was one of the role models for everyone think that Napoleon was right all were very well ahead planned moves. It seems that the book ended a little to fast for me. Containing some irony in it as well, I enjoyed seeing that the image of human and pig kind of blended together and that it kind of hinted that the animals were ashamed that they had been led astray. I felt that the saddest part in the book is when everyone forgot about Boxer excluding Benjamin and Clover who had known him well. But the sad part is when it described that Benjamin, the goat who hadn't changed ever, became even more depressed due to Boxers really bloody death. Even for Napoleon, isn't sending someone to be made into glue a little on the harsh side? One major question I would like to have answered would be why the author chose pigs as the people who treated others like they were inferior. They are dirty and maniacal, but was there another motive for the choice? When blaming Snowball for everything, I found it interesting that although Napoleon had been the one to drive him out, he still used Snowball to his advantage. After all, he did use him to terrorize the other animals into fear and hatred for any one who opposed animal farm. Using Snowball to his advantage, anything that Napoleon messed up convinced the animals that it had been in fact Snowball who had done it out of hatred for the farm. Running the operation very well, I found it interesting at how Napoleon had manipulated the other animals into doing his dirty work. Using Majors principals and beliefs, he made the animals think that they were working for themselves and only themselves when in reality it was they who had been tricked. When reading the book, I had a sneaking suspicion at the beginning that all was't going to be happy rainbows and unicorns all over the place as an ending. When finished, I looked back and realized I had completely called the ending when the pigs had taken the milk for themselves and had tricked the animals into believing a false piece of information.

A Pail Of Air

In the future, Earth is doomed. We as a class have seen all of the science videos Mrs. Atkins has showed us, and we can all sum them up to be pretty much stating "The Earth is going to die at so and so time by so and so object." For instance, when we talked about stars we found out that the sun is going to turn into a supergiant and engulf the Earth in flames and death. Or when we talked about how the moon is going to spin out of Earths orbit at some point and set the Earth to be a wobbling off course ball. With all of these dystopian books, the reason they are popular is because people of our age won't live to see the apocalypse, so they at least have to read about.