Animal Farm, 95pp, 10 chapters
Ch 1-3 test, test - paragraph
Ch 4-6 test, test - paragraph
Ch 7-10 test - essay
George Orwell , real name Eric Blair
audio book - novel read out loud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYXJwWE19X8
fable, "A Fairy Story" - fantasy
fairy tale - imaginary, children, kids,
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
"Cinderella" - Ella, cinder - burned wood, coal from a fireplace
"Rapunzel"
fiction
seems like a children's story- serious, deep
written in a simple way, deep meaning
political story, story about government, story about human nature
story about power, how power corrupts people
corrupts- changes to bad, destroys, makes people dishonest
misuse power - Mr. Obi, Mr.Wei, monkeys, father
often teacher's teach this novel as being about Russian Revolution - 1917, Boleshviks overthrew and murdered the Tzar and his whole family
Tzar - emperor, king
Tzar Nicholas II
Communists took over - based on German economist Karl Marx, Marxism
Anastasia survived?
George Orwell - born 1903, real name Eric Blair
George Orwell - pen name
English, born in India
India was a colony of Great Britain
colonial rule sowed destruction all around the world
lower middle class family, not wealthy
police officer in Burma
racism, colonialism
take on the pen name George Orwell
Paris restaurants - lowest level job - dishwasher
Down and Out in Paris and London 1933
The Road to Wigan Pier 1937 the Great Depression, unemployed men
Spain - Spanish Civil War - socialists and fascists
Dr. Norman Bethune - Canadian
Homage to Catalonia 1938
Animal Farm 1945- couldn't get it published, critical of Russia and Stalin
1984 wrote in 1948, published in 1949
banned book
sick, pneumonia, lungs, - no medical care, no medicine
pneumonia - disease associated with poverty
1950, 46 years old
could have lived another 30-40 years
hero - brave, original thinker, great writer, AF style is very simple
bittersweet - 1984 and Animal Farm are hugely popular novels, cultural references
rewriting of history - government teaching history
for example, Canada history - White European men who made history
First Nations - reservation system, Residential Schools
Animal Farm Chapter 1 Thought Questions
Mr. Jones - has become irresponsible, doesn't feed animals, neglects animals, drunk, lives well while animals are suffering, violent, brutal
Old Major pig, visionary, respected, “majestic-looking”, “benevolent"
3. Old Major's speech - very important
5. two legs - enemy
four legs, or wings - friends
simple ideas for the animals
6. "become rich and free" own their own labour, work for themselves
7. NO house, bed, clothes, alcohol, tobacco, money, trade
ideal dream
OTHER CHARACTERS
Bluebell, Jessie, Pincher dogs
Boxer horse, “enormous” “strong as two
ordinary horses” (2) not smart,
“steadiness of character” “tremendous power of work”
Clover horse, “stout motherly mare” middle-aged, four foals, gentle to ducks (2)
Muriel goat
Benjamin donkey, oldest, bad-tempered,
“cynical”, “never laughed”,
humourless, “devoted to Boxer”(2)
Mollie mare, pulled Mr Jones trap,
“mincing” “lump of sugar”
(3), flirting mane, ribbons
Cat lazy, disengaged
Moses raven, tame, symbol of the church
Rats wild, outcasts
Old Major's speech pp3-6
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