McDougal Littell Literature Connections: Animal Farm Student Editon Grade 9 1997

By George Orwell

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395796776
• ISBN13: 9780395796771
• Release Date: January 1900
• Publisher: McDougal Littel
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9

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No animal may drink alcohol "to excess"

A fairy tale or a nightmare? It all began with a dream by Major, a Middle White boar, of equality and freedom from oppression. Maybe not in our life, comrade, but eventually. The dream brings a song. Intolerable conditions lead to revolution. As time passes, things change; not exactly as planned. Two striking parts of this tale stand out. First, when Boxer is sent to the hospital and Benjamin reads the side of the van, "Horse Slaughterer." Secondly, there was a party in the farmhouse as the pigs were playing cards with the men, and two aces of spades showed up. An argument ensues. Then the creatures outside looked in as they "...looked from pig to man and man to pig, and from pig to man again drew a realization..."