Leon Leonwood Bean

II of Russia, who was overthrown during Bolshevik revolution. Old Major can be compared with Lenin, the force behind the initial Russian revolution. Napoleon, the protagonist/villain can be seen as Stalin, who to amass the power of the Soviet, sent Leon Trotsky (Snowball) to exile. Boxer can be compared with The Stakhanovite movement, whose ideologies lay in over-working themselves for the greater prosperity of the nation. The author beautifully fuses in animalism and symbolism into the context…

Leadership is a quality that some leaders do not have. Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is a satirical book that compares a farm owner to the czar of Russia. Farmer Jones had once been a capable farmer, but in the aftermath of a very damaging lawsuit he becomes an alcoholic and became known for his harsh rule over the animals. Instigated by Old Major [the animals leader], the animals rebel by driving out Farmer Jones, his wife and his workers, and remove him from power, supposedly ending…

John Steinbeck was and is one of history’s greatest American writers because of his great writing works. Since Steinbeck was a naturalist, many of his works had a main theme of nature, the human attempts to compromise with nature, and human connections. For example, in Of Mice and Men, his book of the two migrant workers and their endeavors portray how hard it was to get a job during the Great Depression and keep it. It also showed how people who had a job, struggled to make a living. It showed…

Two Is Better Than One “But what is a kite on the ground? … It is nothing” (Bradbury 370). In the allegory “The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind” by Ray Bradbury, two cities caught in a dispute over superiority eventually come to the realization that they would be stronger working together. They would rebuild their walls every day, and this rivalry was tearing the two cities apart. Bradbury uses symbolism to show that one without the other is nothing. The conflict of the story is that the two…

In the power struggle that followed the death of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, one of Lenin’s lieutenants, seized power. According to the BBC article “Stalin - Purges and Praises,” Stalin began to murder or exile anyone in the government, military or Communist Party whom he suspected of disloyalty. Stalin’s first purge demonstrates his mounting paranoia and distrust toward his colleagues, and makes it clear that his concern was more on his own safety than the well-being of the…

a. Animal Farm is an allegory because of its hidden political undertones. The Manor Farm represents Russia under the Czar and the Animal Farm represents Russia under the USSR. Most of the animals represent people or different groups of people. Napoleon represents Stalin, Snowball represents Trotsky, the sheep represent the common people just following blindly, and Boxer represents the worker. The main feeling expressed in this allegorical story is negative feelings for communism and…

“Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself; but he did not grow too proud...." (Kipling, 4).This is a sentence in Kipling’s book Rikki-tikki-tavi. It is meant to be for the time nthat Rikki beat Nag and Nagaina, two vicious cobras, that were mistreating and eating most other animals in the garden. After this, Rikki should feel proud of himself because the snakes are very wise, have very impressive physical abilities, and Rikki did not have much help from other animals. The first reason…

Old Major Rhetorical Analysis In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Old Major brings all the creatures of the farm in to convince them man is to blame for their misery. As all of the animals they settle in, they sit anxious to hear the thoughts of the respected pig. Old major goes on to persuade his audience to join the revolution using ethos, logos, pathos, an asyndeton, and a polysyndeton. Old Major used ethos to give himself credibility by saying, “I feel it my duty to pass on to you such…

“Get out of my class right now!” yelled Mr. Wolf as the five pigs ran out of the classroom crying. Mr. Wolf is the math and science teacher at Onkiers School For Pigs. He is very tall and scary, and he wears a super nice suit every day to school. Most of the pigs at school are scared of him. Even some of the other teacher are probably scared of him. *30 minutes earlier (before class)* “Hey guys lets bring our phones to class so we can play games with them, Mr.Wolf won’t catch us.”…

In Senator Ellison DuRant Smith of South Carolina’s speech, A Congressional Address, he is predominantly trying to persuade the other senators to “shut the door” to immigration as he refers to their breed as “the breed of a dog” and describes them as “dumb, driven cattle” yet the irony behind all this nonsense is that America was born by immigrants and to this day is still mostly ran by immigrants. Senator Smith approaches immigration in a negative way as he states,”...regard to the salvation…