Branden McCormick
June 21. 2014
Honors English 2
Mr. Modugno
Animal Farm
Characters
a. Napoleon- After the Rebellion of Manor Farm, Napoleon becomes the leader of the new Animal Farm. He creates a bond with the “comrades” and before long, brainwashes them into thinking everything he does is correct and for the common good. But in reality, he is only making decisions on what will benefit him or not. One of these is his guard dogs, which go everywhere with him. In the end, he is just as good of a leader to the other animals as Mr. Jones was. b. Boxer- The strongest animal on the farm. He is a cart-horse, and he does most of the heavy lifting for any project. Including the building of the windmill. Towards the end of the book, when Boxer
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After the rebellion, Snowball takes over leadership, however, he is not familiar with all the responsibilities of running a farm. He is successful in running the harvest and all is well after. The animals are happy, except one, Napoleon, Napoleon wants to rule Animal Farm, and soon he orders his nine guard dogs to chase Snowball off the farm. He claims that Snowball was working with Mr. Jones in secret and was doing what Mr. Jones was doing when he ruled. This is the first time he lies to the animals and deceives them into believing he made the right choice. Napoleon is smart and sly, he opens the farm up to business with neighboring farms, run by people. He changes all the original rules to benefit him and the other pigs. He begins to act more as a tyrant than a leader. He executes animals that admit to work with Mr. Jones. He changed that rule to benefit himself too, the new rule, no animal shall execute another animal, without reason. He tricks the other animals that that was always the original rule. In the end, the animals catch Napoleon with other farmers, talking to them, they hear him say that Animal Farm is no longer called Animal Farm, but it is now the original name, Manor Farm. Which shows that Napoleon is really doing the work of a human being. Him and the other pigs prove to be deceiving the other animals for their own …show more content…
He liked the pool so much that he told stories to Pi’s parents and they decided to name their child after this pool. Pi is the narrator of the story, and his stories about his trip on the sea consumes most of the story. Pi is very interested in the characteristics of people and animals as well as their actions.
Richard Parker- The Bengal tiger that accompanies Pi on his journey at sea. The reason for his human-like name is because his original owner, Richard Parker, named him thirsty, but the sales clerk accidentally reversed their names. Richard lived for the most part at the Pondicherry Zoo, Pi’s father’s zoo. He weighed around 450 pounds and was about nine feet long. Pi is the only person whom he respects as more dominant than himself.
Francis Adirubasamy- Francis taught Pi how to swim and was the reason he was named such an unusual name. Francis tells the author Pi’s life story when he runs into him by chance at a coffee shop. He arranges a meeting for the author and Pi so he can get a first person account of Pi’s stories and
Pi continues his journey by learning how to live in a small space with these animals and even training one of them. In the end Pi reveals another story with people replacing the animals that were on the lifeboat before. Pi had initially used animals which best represented the people who were really in the boat. This showed how throughout the story, since these people were put into a life threatening situation, they had revealed a more primal side. Life of Pi is accompanied with various symbols, with each
(Martel New PDF 19) This emphasizes one of the key parts of the hero which is to have special abilities unlike or unknown to their family or friends. In this case, Pi learning to swim is so vital to his survival and it plays into how he was the only one to survive because he had this ability. Additionally, when Pi and his parents get confronted by the 3 religious teachers, he has to reveal that, “Yes, it was all forcefully brought to the attention of my bemused parents. You see, they didn’t know.
The book, “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, shows the character Pi change emotionally throughout the story, making him a dynamic character. This change can been seen throughout the whole story. At the beginning of the book, Pi’s boat sinks, leaving him and a tiger to survive at sea. He is very worried about how he will find enough food without killing fish, because he is a vegetarian, and killing fish would be against his beliefs. This struggle can be seen when Pi is attempting to kill his first fish.
The pigs took away rights and lives of their own citizens as did the Soviet’s, which helps teach what the book was trying to show that when these political figures gain such power, that they should not use it to only their advantage but to everyone’s. This can be represented at the end of the book when Napoleon has a meeting with humans and starts to resemble the humans exactly. This is because Napoleon used his power for his own well-being like the humans and eventually resembled one. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” pg.124 The image of the pigs appearance is tarnished by the way the pig treated his citizen as did Stalin.
Napoleon made a substantial impact on the way the animals reacted to their new hardships. The pigs, including Napoleon, are said to be the most intelligent animals on the farm, but unlike the others, Napoleon uses it to manipulate the
The second tactic that Napoleon uses is loyalty to the farm. The quote shows that the animals are loyal to the farm by upkeeping the farm in which they do it for themselves, “All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves…” (Orwell 73). The quote proves that the pigs worked the other animals like slaves.
Furthermore, Napoleon gives the other animals the impression he was the sole leader of the rebellion on Animal farm and makes Snowball -a leader who wanted what was best for the animals- seem like an enemy who was in cahoots with Farmer Jones since long before the animals took over the farm. Napoleon and Squealer (another “fat cat” pig.) always put the blame on Snowball whenever something went wrong in the farm to avoid having the blame fall on them. Napoleon is an exemplary example of just how selfish and hypocritical people can be in furthering their own aims because he continued to subtly but purposely change the seven rules put in place as the pillars of animalism. For example, Napoleon and the other pigs move into Farmer Jones’s house and sleep in his bed after commanding “No animal shall sleep in a bed”, so he changes the commandment to read “no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”.
The greed of power will always blind the leader’s judgment. Napoleon was not excluded in this matter as he often takes advantages knowing that the animals cannot read or write. Although there are many examples to support this fact, but one stands out the most, Boxer’s ending. As can be seen throughout the story, Boxer is the one who worked hard for that farm’s welfare from the beginning to the end. His never-failing cry of ‘I will work harder’ often inspired the rest of animals to work hard despite facing failures such as destruction of the windmill for the second time.
Life of Pi is a Canadian dream experience novel by Yann Martel distributed in 2001. The hero is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian kid from Pondicherry who investigates issues of most profound sense of being and reasonableness from an early age. He survives 227 days after a wreck while stranded on a raft in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. ' Life of Pi' is told from two substituting perspectives, the principle character Pi in a flashback and Yann Martel himself, who is the "meeting essayist" (Martel 101) talking with Pi numerous years after the tiger in the vessel story. This system of the nosy storyteller adds the narrative authenticity to the book, setting up, similar to a melodic contradiction, the myth-production,
The animals start recognizing Napoleon for any good achievement done that day. For example, one of the hens recognizes Napoleon for just one stroke of good fortune. “Under the leadership of our Leader Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days…”(78). These poor animals are tricked into thinking that everything good that happens is due to “Comrade Napoleon's Leadership”. Every quote we see is a deeper level of corruption in Napoleon, and now, his influence on the farm is tearing what the revolution was all about.
In Animals Farm, there is a pig who’s name Napoleon. This character did not contributed to the society with his actions. In effect, he did not respect the concept of “Animalism” which is the equality of all the animals. He did many actions that broke this conception during the entire story. At the beginning, Napoleon, take the farm with Snowball when the farmer, Mr. Jones, left.
Napoleon also uses manipulation to gain and maintain a firm control by changing the Commandments for the farm in ways that work to his benefit. Squealer, Napoleon’s propaganda department, Keeps the farm animals believing in Napoleon by describing what they hear and see to make it seem harmless. Using effective tactics of fear, convincing propaganda, and manipulation, Napoleon gains and maintains control of Animal Farm. “Animal Farm” has corruption and equality in a way the animals try to succeed and achieve a goal to make the farm better. Power corrupts in “Animal Farm” because the pigs have a goal which is working together and helping one another.
The real Life Of Pi, a novel by Yann Martel, tells the story of a sixteen year old Indian boy who survives at sea with a tiger for 227 days or 7 months. Piscine Molitor Patel, commonly known as Pi, is growing up in the Southern Indian city of Pondicherry where his father runs the zoo. Pi is a curious and intelligent fifteen- year- old boy who was born into the Hindu religion, but also studied the Christian and Muslim religions and considered himself to be follower of all three religions. At the end of the novel, and after spending 227 days on a boat with a tiger, Pi finds himself in a killer storm when he sees a large ship in the distance.
The Life of Pi is a fictional novel about a faithful young man having to be able to survive on a lifeboat with a tiger named Richard Parker. The young man, or the main protagonist is Piscine Molitor Patel. Piscine is named after his Uncle’s, Mamaji, favorite pool. Piscine decided to change his name to Pi the Greek letter instead of always being called Piscine. But this Greek letter also takes the form of a formula used to find the circumference of a circle.