Animal Farm Part II

      By late summer, news of Animal Farm has spread across half the county. Mr. Jones lives ignominiously in Willingdon, drinking and complaining about his misfortune. Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Frederick, who own the adjoining farms, fear that disenchantment will spread among their own animals. Their rivalry with each other, however, prevents them from working together against Animal Farm. They merely spread rumors about the farm’s inefficiency and moral reprehensibility. Meanwhile, animals everywhere begin singing “Beasts of England,” which they have learned from flocks of pigeons sent by Snowball, and many begin to behave rebelliously. At last, in early October, a flight of pigeons alerts Animal Farm that Mr. Jones has begun marching on the farm with some of Pilkington’s and Frederick’s men. Snowball, who has studied books about the battle campaigns of the renowned Roman general Julius Caesar, prepares a defense and leads the animals in an ambush on the men. Boxer fights courageously, as does Snowball, and the humans suffer a quick defeat. The animals’ losses amount only to a single sheep, whom they give a hero’s burial. Boxer, who believes that he has unintentionally killed a stable boy in the chaos, expresses his regret at taking a life, even though it is a human one. Snowball tells him not to feel guilty, asserting that “the only good human being is a dead one.” Mollie, as is her custom, has avoided any risk to herself by hiding during the battle. Snowball and Boxer each receive medals with the inscription “Animal Hero, First Class.” The animals discover Mr. Jones’s gun where he dropped it in the mud. They place it at the base of the flagstaff, agreeing to fire it twice a year: on October 12th, the anniversary of the Battle of the Cowshed was the victory of their rebellion.

     In chapter five Molly is becoming a burden to Animal Farm with not working nor helping out and is taken away by a red-faced man with sugar to be a pull horse and is never mentioned again by the Animal Farm. As the winter cold comes the animals hold monthly meets and the constant fighting between Snowball and Napolean keep happening. Snowball is a good speaker but Napolean is better support for the farm and the leadership is questioned constantly. Snowball ruffles in Mr. Jones notes and comes up with an idea to make a windmill to generate electricity to make the farm jobs simpiler. When Napolean gets wiff of the plan he comes in and urinates on the plans into the future trying to tell Snowball to stop looking ahead and work on the present. The plan was going to be place and Snowballs speech inspired the barn about the wonders of electricity and Napolean unaffected by the speech whistles and 9 dogs come in and take Snowball away and the animals go back to Napoleans side. Afterward, many of the animals feel confused and disturbed. Squealer explains to them that Napoleon is making a great sacrifice in taking the leadership responsibilities upon himself and that, as the cleverest animal, he serves the best interest of all by making the decisions. These statements placate the animals, though they still question the expulsion of Snowball. Squealer explains that Snowball was a traitor and a criminal. Eventually, the animals come to accept this version of events, and Boxer adds greatly to Napoleon’s prestige by adopting the maxims “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right.” And later the animals find out that Napolean was never opposing the windmill idea and him and Squealer take over the plan and call it made by themselves and the animals eventually start following him more into detail.

     During Chapter 6 the animals work at a backbreaking pace to farm enough food for themselves and to build the windmill. The leadership cuts the rations;Squealer explains that they have simply “readjusted” them. And the animals receive no food at all unless they work on Sunday afternoons. But because they believe what the leadership tells them "that they are working for their own good now, not for Mr. Jones’s",they are eager to take on the extra labor. Boxer, in particular, commits himself to Animal Farm, doing the work of three horses but never complaining. Even though the farm possesses all of the necessary materials to build the windmill, the project presents a number of difficulties. The animals struggle over how to break the available stone into manageable sizes for building without picks and crowbars, which they are unable to use. They finally solve the problem by learning to raise and then drop big stones into the quarry, smashing them into usable chunks. By late summer, the animals have enough broken stone to begin construction. The work was the same pain that Mr. Jones had inffliected on the animals and the same food schedules are the same. Later in the year a fearsome storm hits the Animal Farm and tears roof and tree's and sends them flying all over. After the storm they go out to see the windmill and to their horror all the work that has gone into and now it has toppled over. Napoleans excuse was that Snowball sabotaged the windmill in spite and intent on destroying the farm. After a long speech Napolean proposes to build a new windmill in its place and the animals start over again.