Q5

What is the mood of this novel?What happens?How do the events of this novel make you feel?

The mood of this novel is generally positive at the beginning and changes to negative and heavy mood as the story goes on and turns to lightheadedness at the end. In the beginning, the animals cause a revolution and take over the farm, feeling happy and content about the fact that they have freed themselves from the evil farmer. Then, the animals work and produce many crops in the farm, more successful than the farmer. The plan to develop the farm was based on building the windmill and Snowball almost had the animals to agree with him and start the construction when Napoleon orders his dogs to attack Snowball. Snowball runs away and Napoleon takes over the farm by power and terror, which the mood started to get heavy and dark. The animals had to work harder and their portion of food had been reduced. The construction of the windmill started and the because of the construction, the farm produced less crops each year. Unlike the Seven Commandment said, the pigs and the dogs were treated like the special rulers and the rest of the animals were treated as the workers. As the time went, Napoleon reduced the food ration each year and made animals to work more. Some of the animals hooked up with Snowball and tried to assassinate Napoleon but they were caught and slaughtered at the spot. The dogs killed the animals that were associated with the assassins, too. After the execution, the animals got scared of getting killed by Napoleon so they started to work harder. Exception of a few bright animals, the rest of the animals did not notice that the pigs were changing the Seven Commandments little by little. Later on, Napoleon started to sell the animals to the human and at the end, he decided to interact with the humans and act like humans. The events of this novel do not influence me or make me reflect because these are the events that happened during the Russian Revolution and I do not care about it. Thus, the events are events and they do not have affects on me.