Coulisse

In chapters 7&8 of Animal Farm by George Orwell, many things occur. For one, Boxer’s health takes a pitfall, and he is to be shipped off to a human hospital. When the van comes, Benjamin reads that on the side of the van are letters that say, “HORSE SLAUGHTER” and things about a gluing company. He gets the other animals, and they yell at Boxer to try to escape, but it was no use; his strength had been decreasing, and he couldn’t get away. Two days later, it was reported that Boxer had died in the hospital. Squealer said that he’d been with Boxer on his deathbed, when the animals told him about what had been written on the side of the van. Squealer quickly denied this and said that a vet had bought the van that once belonged to a slaughterer and had merely forgotten to paint it yet. This made the most sense in the world to the other animals, and they believed every word of it.

Then, a few years later, Clover found the pigs walking on two legs, Napoleon with a whip in his totter. She went to the Seven Commandments and had Benjamin read; “All animals are equal./But some animals are more equal than others.” All of the Commandments, by then, had been changed, to make the pigs look like they hadn’t done any wrong. By then, the pigs were walking around in clothes, smoking pipes, and drinking whiskey, not to mention also eating better than the other animals.

Humans came eventually, and were found playing cards at the table with the pigs, each with a mug of beer at his elbow. One of the farmers, Pilkington, said that he was glad that they were now friends, and he raised a toast to Animal Farm. Then Napoleon took the floor and agreed that he was glad that they were allies, and also happened to mention that many of the ceremonies would be diminished, i.e., the animals walking around the skull of a boar and calling each other “Comrades”. He also mentioned that Animal Farm would once more be called “The Manor Farm.” So he raised a toast, and they went back to their game of cards. The eavesdropping animals didn’t know what to think of the situation, but soon their was a crash, and shouts. Napoleon and Pilkington were having a row because they’d both showed an Ace of the same suit.

This shows a connection to our project on writing a story about allegory because there is some meaning behind the protagonist or the main characters. Our project is not just to write a story, but to illustrate it (that being my job) and also write a summary of the Twitter story that is in the process of being built at the moment.