Chapter Summaries♥

Chapter 1

Old Major got all the animals on the farm to gather into the farm for a speech about his thoughts of rebellion.
All the animals on the farm were introduced to the reader.
Major introduces the song ‘Beasts Of England’ which is later sung by all the animals.

Qoutes
- ‘It was agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr Jones was safetly was out of the way. PAGE 1
- ‘I do not think comrades that I will be with you for many more months now’ PAGE 3
- ‘All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.’ PAGE 9
- ‘Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.’ PAGE 7

I would call this chapter ‘The Dream Of Rebellion’


Chapter 2

Old Major dies peacefully in his sleep
The pigs begin teaching and orginizing the animals for the rebellion.
The pigs elaborate Old Major’s ideas by introducing animalism.
Moses the raven tells the animals about sugarcandy mountain

Qoutes
- "THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.3. No animal shall wear clothes.4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.5. No animal shall drink alcohol.6. No animal shall kill any other animal.7. All animals are equal." PAGE 21

I would call this chapter ' The Rise of the Commandments '


Chapter 3

The Animals start harvesting the hay under the pigs supervision.
Boxer starts getting up early and doing vollunteer work
The pigs assign no work on Sunday
The seven commandments are shortened to ‘ FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD’
The animals discover that the missing milk had actually gone into the pigs mash.

Quotes
- "I will work harder!" PAGE 25
- "FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD" PAGE 29
- The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master." PAGE 24

I would call this chapter ' The Harvest '


Chapter 4

News about the takeover of Animal Farm is spread around town.
Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood and Mr. Frederick of Pinchfeild are introduced. They are described as hating eachother and that they would never co-operate. They are worried about the animals rebellion.
The first war took place and the animals won, this war was then called ‘The Battle Of The Cowshed’
Boxer thought he had killed a person after kicking them with his hoof during the war.

Quotes
- "'I have no wish to take life, not even human life,' repeated Boxer, and his eyes were full of tears." PAGE 37
- "War is war. The only good human is a dead one” PAGE 28
- “He is dead…I had no intentions of doing that. I forgot that I was wearing iron shoes. Who will believe that I did not do this on purpose” PAGE 28

i would call this chapter ' The Battle of the Cowshed '

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