Animal Farm activity 2:
Questions:
1)What is your reaction to the animals´ revolution? Explain.
2) Do you sympathize with the animals´ complaints and goals? Why? Why not?
3) Describe how the rebellion takes place? How does the animals behaviuor during the rebellion suggest human characteristics?
4) How do the pigs gain the rights to the cows´ milk? Why do the other
animals allow this? What does this event suggest about power hierarchy
on the farm?
5) What was your reaction to Snowball´s expulsion from Animal farm? Explain.
6) Identify three ways that Napoleon tires to solidify his leadership
position on the farm. How does the process of decision making on the
farm change under Napoleon´s leadership?
7)Why do the executions take place? What message do these events send to animals about their role in a future society?
8) Do you think it´s fair that those who are more educated or more
skilled - like the pigs in animal farm- have more influence in the
decision making? Who makes the decisions in your family, community and
nation?
9) By the end of the film it can be suggested that the pigs and human
political leaders are interchangeable. How might power change those who
have it?
10)In your opinion are the pigs in Animal Farm more intelligent than all
the other animals? What qualities enabled them to lead the others?
Provide examples that support your answer.
Answers:
1. My reaction was quite confuse, because it´s almost impossible for this to happen in real life, anyway, I realized that this movie was an example of the fight that people against animal slaughter are carrying since many years ago.
2. Yes, I do, because nobody wants to be forced to live for the benefit of other people.
3.It all started when the animals get rid of their owner,
mister Jones, and became "after the attempt of the humans to recover their farm. The animals started to gather human characteristics when the bad pigs exile Snowball( the good one) and adquire the power. The close contact that the bad pigs had with mankind(in general) made the pigs realize that they were loosing all the priviledges that carry to be a human, so they star drinking alcohol, sleeping in beds, between other aspects.
4.The pigs gain the rights to the cow's milk by telling the animals that it was for the benefit of everyone and allowed this because they thought that as Old Mayor was a pig who led the farm, the other pigs would be as capable as him in leadership terms. This event suggest that the power of the hierarchy of the farm was concentrated in the pigs.
5.It was a bad one. Firt, because Snowball was a good leader but because of Napoleon´s fake resons he was expulsed. Second, I felt angry because of Napoleon´s evilness and nobody in the farm was able to notice about that.
6. Napoleon tried to solidify his leadership by: a) Modifying the rules made by Old mayor and written by Snowball. b) Eliminating everyone who was playing against his rules, by saying they were traitors and must die(to justify Snowball´s death). c) Using guards (dogs) to control everything that was happening in the farm.
7. The executions were aplied to keep the farm free of animals who have the enough thinking potential to realize that Napoleon´s leadership was awful, sending this kills a message about a horrible future: their role would be to be manipulated in every aspect by Napoleon.
8. I think it´s fair and it´s unacceptable that a person with no education and skills is leading, it means that he is not prepared to make decisions doesn´t matter the situation. In my family, the decision makers are my parents.In my community(school) is my Headmaster helped by the directory, which is similar to my nation making decision process because the president makes a decision and it must be approved by the parliament.
9.Having power doesn´t make anyone change, it only shows who you really are. In the case of the movie, power made snowball show the good leader he was, and Napoleon the tyrant.
10. The pigs of Animal farm are, indeed, much more intelligent than any other animal. First of all, a fact that provided the pigs the leadership of the farm was that Old mayor was the elder of the farm and everyone showed respect to him, so when he died the pigs inherit his respect and his "leading abilities" so all the animals started to see them as the new leaders. An example of the pigs intelligence is when they taught the other animals how to read and write so they could make a list of the rules of the farm.
This old and small town is
located in the southern state of Alabama. Since I’m here, I
could notice the weather was really veering. From the insufferable heat of the
sun in summer, to the most freezing days that I've ever had in his
life in winter. But this year was special, with my investigation I could notice
that the snow that I was watching in winter was a very strange
phenomenon for this county. When I entered, the first thing I saw was the
nature filling every corner of the streets and the separation of the white
people and black people. The Great Depression hitted very hard this place, even
the richest couldn't escape from it. White ones lived in old Victorian houses
decorated with porches with Eave dentils and Tuscan columns, while black ones
stayed near the dumps in the worst conditions with their children playing in
the dirt, also felt bad for them. It seemed that the civil was still having part here. There weren't
many cars, but every of them were luxurious and belonging to white people like
the Buick Eight, the Packard Eight, or the Rolls-Royce Phantom II. Population
was short in number, every one took care of the other but the race segregation
was notorious the whole time, even in clothes. The white man wore a suit the
whole year doesn't matter if it’s the American summer suit or the London cut, , with beautiful silk handkerchiefs peering
out their jacket pockets, but if you were different and individualist, you'd
never be in the box( I felt segregated too). 
