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Are there any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?

I don't think that there is a country that has the same situation as Animal Farm. Animal Farm was written based on Russia's situation a long time ago and there is no country in current times that uses the same government systems as Russia used to use. So the closest I can get to a similar situation is North Korea. This is only because North Korea still has dictatorship and brain washing. But if you look at Animal Farm's situation in a different way you could say that every country has the same situation. Every country has rulers, corruptness, common people working their backs off for their country, government people cheating from the goods common people made, etc. Everything that goes on secretly is the same that happened in Animal Farm.
No, the book does not say how this problem can be fixed. In Animal Farm the farm became poorer and poorer while the pigs didn't submit and ask for help to the people. They stubbornly tried to show off while it was obvious that in a few years Animal Farm would no longer exist. Showing off, lying, and cheating are all part of man's nature. I don't think you can really correct that in a person.

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What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? why?

The mood of this novel is ironic and sly. At first animal farm was supposed to be a perfect world with equalities but later the pigs took over the whole farm and started cheating on other animals. I don't really think the mood makes me sad but it does make me mad. Cheating and lying are all part of the same cycle. The cycle never stops. I think cheating and lying are some factors of a person's natural characteristics. So I don't feel sad at seeing something repeated in societies but I feel anger and disappointment in people.

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Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? what is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?

I think the main characters are the pigs, especially Napoleon the leader of the whole farm. Napoleon doesn't come out in every scene or do something striking during working times but everything evolves around him. The pigs make decisions under the supervision of Napoleon, they break all the rules and remake them again, and they order the whole farm to work while they don't do anything. They are in charge of the whole farm. I personally don't like them but I do know that the other animals liked them. The animals of the farm weren't really understanding the whole situation. They didn't realize that the pigs were living like kings off from the work of other animals. Now who would like to be used like that? No one. One policy I have is that people who have more power and more responsibility shouldn't be cheating or bullying someone under their rule. Its really morally wrong and cowardly. I do have to admit that the pigs were good at brainwashing animals to believe that they were doing right and good things. They also cleverly re-wrote the 7 major laws and told lies that couldn't be detected by other animals. Still I can't say that people in this world don't cheat off people in a lesser status than they are in. There are many powerful people in high status' that cleverly cheat people and never get caught. Even though they know its morally wrong they just do it because they know that there is a lot thats in for them. No one can change people from stopping their cheating and using people. Only God can change their hearts and the only thing people who actually know whats going on can do is speak up and let them know what's going on.

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1. What is the climax of this novel? What happened? How do the events of this novel make you feel?

I thought that the climax of this novel was when the rule of the pigs began to become corrupt. Napoleon, the pig leader of the whole farm, took the rule from the other pig's, snowball, "party" because he thought they were cheating others in the farm. Later he started taking rule and did the same things snowball did, cheat off the other animals. The downfall of all the good intentions was the climax. There was a flaw in all the hopes of a perfect world. No one could go back to where they started after the ones in power became corrupt. As usual I feel mad and angry for the common animals who were cheated. But its the truth. Almost every country's government is corrupt and they cheat on the common people who are working to support the country. So being mad and angry won't solve any problems. I don't really know if its possible to have no problems in your government. Everyone has different opinions and it might be wrong but you'll be fighting for it. There really is nothing I can do but fight back with what I believe is right.

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And yet the animals never gave up hope. More, they never lost, even for an instant, their sense of honour and privilege in being members of Animal Farm. They were still the only farm in the whole country - in all England! - owned and operated by animals. not one of them, not even the youngest, not even the newcomers who had been brought from farms ten or twenty miles away, ever ceased to marvel at threat. And when they heard the gun booming and saw the green flag fluttering at the masthead, their hearts swelled with imperishable pride, and the talk turned always toward the old heroic days, the expulsion of Jones, the writing of the Seven Commandments, the great battles in which the human invaders had been defeated. None of the old dreams had been abandoned. The republic of the Animals which Major had foretold, when the green fields of England should be untrodden by human feet, was still believed in. Some day it was coming: it might not be soon, it might not be within the lifetime of any animal now living , but still it was coming.

This passage was directly showing the brainwashed animals' thoughts on dictatorship. No matter how hard they worked, how lazy they were, how big they were, or how much they ate they were treated and valued the same. They all had the same status and were given the same payment. They didn't really understand all corners to this type of governing. It was actually cheating laboring animals and giving tons of advantages to the pigs and the dogs who just lived off their labour. But how would the lambs, horses, and other animals know that? So they end up being so pround of their "country" or farm that actually cheats off the citizens who work to make the country live and improve. Its really honorable of them to be pround of their home but it is really sad that there is actually more happening then they actually realize. They are wanting communism to spread all over the world but it will actually kill them and devestate them first.