By Mrs. Arguello
English I
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Fable: A short tale that has animal characters
with human qualities that teaches readers a
moral or lesson.
 Characters in Animal Farm are animals each with
his/her own personality and human
characteristics.
 The animals think, meet, talk, act, fight, disobey,
and obey.
Satire: the writer tries to make the reader have
a negative opinion about someone or
something by making them seem ridiculous
or foolish
Animal Farm exposes and ridicules Communism
in Russia after the Russian Revolution.
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A story with two
meanings:
 Literal meaning:
characters, events, and
concepts are presented
as they are in the story
 Figurative meaning:
characters, events, and
concepts symbolize
something beyond the
story itself
Literal Meaning
Figurative
Meaning
Animal Farm
Russia from 19171943
Animals
Various figures
from time period
Animalism
Communism
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You each have three colored pencils.
A few of you have more.
The colored pencils represent food or money.
The more you have, the better off you are.
Play rock, paper, scissors for three minutes.
The winner of each round gets a marker or
colored pencil.
The person with the most colored pencils or
markers at the end of three minutes wins the
competition.
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Capitalism is the basic economic system of
the United States.
Free market with competition
 People buy and sell goods as they choose at the
prices the market will bear.
Now, give back all of your colored pencils.
You have given up everything that you have to
the government.
What are the government’s options?
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What if the government provided the colored
pencils for you to use as you need?
“From each, according to his ability, to each
according to his need.”
 Need more? Take more
 Need less? Take less
 Everyone owns everything together, and you take
what you need.
 No rich, middle class, or poor
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An economic and government system in
which all means of production and
distribution are owned by the community
in common. The ultimate goal is that there
would be no government and all of humanity
would live peacefully together.
Nicholas II
1868-1918 - Last Czar of
Russia.
Opposed to progress, poor
working conditions,
great wealth in the
hands of a few, did not
help poor
He was overthrown during
the Russian Revolution
of 1917 and was
executed along with his
family.
Karl Marx
 1818-1883 - Often recognized as
the father of communism.
Analysis of history led to his
belief that communism would
replace capitalism. Believed in a
classless society.
Communist Manifesto
 A book written by Karl Marx. It
suggested that there would be a
social revolution in which the
working class would overthrow
the middle class factory owners
and then set up a classless,
socialist community. This book
was the blueprint for communist
governments around the world.
 All men were born free, but
society had got to such a state
that the majority were in chains.
“Religion is the opium of the masses.”
Vladimir Lenin
 1870-1924 - Russian
founder of the
Bolsheviks and leader of
the Russian Revolution
and first head of the
Soviet Union.
 “Vanguard Party” leader:
was supposed to lead
the revolution, set up
democracy led by
working class, then turn
over power to the
working class.
Leon Trotsky
 A Bolshevik leader
with Lenin
 Pure Communist,
followed Marx
 Wanted to improve
life for everyone in
Russia
 Chased away by
Lenin’s KGB (secret
police)
Josef Stalin
 Bolshevik revolutionary,
head of the Soviet
Communists after 1924.
 Dictator of the Soviet
Union from 1928 to
1953.
 He led the Soviet Union
with an iron fist, using
Five-Year Plans to
increase industrial
production and terror to
crush opposition
 Mass public executions
of opposition
Propaganda: a form of communication
that is designed or crafted purposely to
influence the public’s attitudes toward
some cause, position, or another group of
people. Propaganda usually present only
one side of an issue or argument.