Animal Farm

Animal Farm

  • Submitted By: codie15
  • Date Submitted: 12/05/2013 9:34 AM
  • Category: English
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Animal Farm Essay
The movie followed the book fairly closely. Rather than the animals speaking, as it was in the book, a narrator told the story in the movie. Old Major died when he was giving his speech in the movie, while days pass between his speech and his death in the book. The scenes with humans didn’t generally match the text, but the movie was pretty accurate. Another big component of the book that was missing in the movie is Mollie the horse. Mollie is a big section of the book because of her love of the ribbons in her mane that represent being owned by a human. I found it quite sad that they didn’t include her in the movie. One major thing that sets the movie apart from the book is the departure of the book. In both, the animals look through the windows of the house and see a “blending” of humans and pigs, as if they had become one and the same. The movie illustrates this scene quite well but then it took a turn for the worse. Once the animals see the distortion of the pigs in the movie, they charge into the house and we are to assume the animals take over. In the book, we want them to take over, but they don’t. Additionally, towards the end of the book, Mr. Pilkington comes to Animal Farm for the big dinner feast but in the movie, only pigs came to celebrate and to learn how to take on and manage a farm as Napoleon has done.
Many things in the book stay the same but I will only point out a few of the more important scenes. The departure of Boxer is almost exactly the same in the movie and the book. Boxer is working long and hard hours as usual and he collapses. Benjamin calls out to the animals and they take him to the farmhouse. Napoleon arranges for Boxer to be taken away to a glue-maker but the animals think Boxer is going to a hospital. When the truck arrives and takes Boxer away, Benjamin sees a sign on the back of the truck with an animal skull on it and he chases the truck until he runs out of breath. Squealer says he was...

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