http://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2006_06_01_mchenrycountyblog_archive.htmlPlease choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
“The Seven Commandments
1. 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 bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.” (p. 43)
After reading this quote, I was speechless. I was outraged by the foolish act of humans. In our modern society, there are crimes everywhere we go. Killing and murdering are some of the major ones. These commandments told me of how humans are seen at animal’s point of view: an alcoholic, a murderer, and an unfair monster. Because humans are what animals actually think they are, I think that humans should consider changing their iniquitous image to a righteous image. Humans are worse than animals!
After reading the first two commandments, I thought that animals must have had a bad influence from humans to have such rules. What could humans have done to be enemies of animals? Putting the food supply reason on the side, I thought about other reasons. The rest of the commandments told me everything. In the book, the farmer was drunk all the time when the animals saw him. Because he was drunk, Mr. Jones often forgot to feed his animals. Every time he got money from selling his farm products, he used it for his alcohol enjoyment. Because selling pigs was what Jones did for their living, the animals thought of him as a murderer, separating family members of animals. I thought that the last commandment was made because humans treated the animals unfairly. For example, I hypothesized that the pigs were fed more because Jones wanted to sell them for money.
Because humans showed sinful images to animals, animals have been influenced by creating rules to prevent what humans have done to them from happening. Us, humans should work on being on the “good” list of animals. No more killing! No more alcohols!
“The Seven Commandments
1. 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 bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.” (p. 43)
After reading this quote, I was speechless. I was outraged by the foolish act of humans. In our modern society, there are crimes everywhere we go. Killing and murdering are some of the major ones. These commandments told me of how humans are seen at animal’s point of view: an alcoholic, a murderer, and an unfair monster. Because humans are what animals actually think they are, I think that humans should consider changing their iniquitous image to a righteous image. Humans are worse than animals!
After reading the first two commandments, I thought that animals must have had a bad influence from humans to have such rules. What could humans have done to be enemies of animals? Putting the food supply reason on the side, I thought about other reasons. The rest of the commandments told me everything. In the book, the farmer was drunk all the time when the animals saw him. Because he was drunk, Mr. Jones often forgot to feed his animals. Every time he got money from selling his farm products, he used it for his alcohol enjoyment. Because selling pigs was what Jones did for their living, the animals thought of him as a murderer, separating family members of animals. I thought that the last commandment was made because humans treated the animals unfairly. For example, I hypothesized that the pigs were fed more because Jones wanted to sell them for money.
Because humans showed sinful images to animals, animals have been influenced by creating rules to prevent what humans have done to them from happening. Us, humans should work on being on the “good” list of animals. No more killing! No more alcohols!
1 comment:
Except the fact that those very laws were written down because each one was to be broken later on in the book by the very same animals. If your going to use Animal Farm to justify your belief in animal cruelty might as well point out how in Animal Farm the animals turned out to be more hypocritical than humans.
Oh and hey, let's look at nature for example. A lot of predators toy and play with their food, a lot of animals actually kill for sport, and "play" for practice of survival.
Grow a backbone.
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