Discussion Questions Animal Farm

1. Old Major realizes that Mr. Jones has been taking advantage of the animals so he constructs a plan to take all of the products the animals produce and keep it for themselves 2. Moses was hated by almost all of the animals because he told lies to everyone. Even though he was hated he was still accepted and welcomed to the farm. Old Major was kind and expected Moses to change and not continue to be rude and tell lies.

3. Old Major warns the other animals that they can't keep living the lifestyle under the tyranny of the human. He urges the other animals to rebel and says that they can not trust anything that goes on two legs.

4. A lie is sometimes built around a truth but expanded on to the point of when it is false. Squealer and the
During the invasion of animal farm, Boxer unintentionally kills a stable boy. Boxer does not believe in real harm to enemies. Boxer immediately regretted what he did and felt bad. I feel more sympathy for Boxer because even though he killed someone, his intentions were different and meant no harm. However, the stable boy did not kill anyone so nobody will know what his intentions were during the invasion. This incident makes Boxer look like the bad guy and makes him feel like nobody will understand it was not on purpose. This dilemma is the start to a dystopian society that is to come.

10. Mollie never takes the rebellion seriously. She is more concerned about her red ribbons and wonders whether there will be lumps of sugar after the rebellion Snowball remarked that ribbons are effectively clothes and therefore they defy the principles of Animalism and should be burnt. Mollie went missing and was later found in her stall hiding a stash of sugar lumps and claimed to be scared by the gunshots. She then went missing again and the pigeons told the farm she made a new home in
A scapegoat is a person or group made to bear the blame for others. Whenever there is a problem people relate to snowball as their scapegoat. Since Snowball is off of the farm it is easy to blame him for everything. Whenever resources disappear Napoleon blames Snowball. The animals are also not the brightest so Napoleon can get away with a lot of things. Another example is when the windmill started to fall apart. Napoleon once again used Snowball to blame for his mistakes.

14. In chapter 7 Boxer disagreed Snowballs removal saying that he was loyal in the start. Later, Napoleon's dogs attacked Boxer and the four pigs that had questioned Snowball's removal. Napoleon lets Boxer go and orders the dogs to kill the other pigs. I do not think Boxer and the pigs really committed any crimes and Napoleon was taking this issue too seriously.

15. The windmill in Animal Farm is a symbol of the expansion of communism and technology. Since this book mirrors the Russian Revolution, Orwell had to add some symbol in to create an idea of