MS. Melville 5 final copy

Although "Animal Farm" appears to be a simple book about animals, in reality "Animal Farm is a satire of the Russian Revolution. Not everything that you hear is always the truth. In "Animal Farm the way character's respond to the stories has a strong connection on their ability to survive.

The first character by the name of Squealer is the one who twists stories. A perfect example is the issue with the beds he says "you have heard then, comrades," he said "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? And why not allowed for animals to sleep in the beds because it was against the rules. Another story was the incident when the milk and apples were stolen. The story was that the pigs had stolen them, becuase they needed it to do brainwork. The last story was about Boxer's death Squealer told everyone that he was sold, and had died in the hospital. Since Squealer twists so many stories he ends up rich and famous because he is able to master the stories.

Benjamin on the other hand does not get wrapped up in the debates and the stories. The reason for this is because he does believe everything that he is told. Since he is older and has been around longer he knows better. When the windmill is wrecked everyone ecspecially Napolean blames Snowball who is no longer on farm. except for Benjamin because from his point of view it would have been impossible for a little pig to have done so much damage to the windmill. The story of boxer's death is unbelievable to Benjamin. The reason for this is becuase he heard that boxer was suppose to be taken to the hospital, but sense he could read he read the sign on the wagon that was taking Boxer to the slaughter house, which means that he does believe the story about Boxer's death. Since Benjamin does not believe everything that he is told he is able to survive because he knows better.

Boxer is one of the animals who believes everything that he is told. One of the stories were animals being killed. He questioned it when Squealer questioned and pursuaded them that the story of the animals being killed true. Boxer also thought that Napolean was always right. Boxer figured that since Snowball was now charge everything he said was right. Since Snowball wasn't there to there to tell him the truth he figured Napolean was always telling the truth. In the end Boxer dies, he is sent to the slaughter house.

This book is a perfect example of when people are not educated enough how they are not able to see through the lies that are being told.

Ms. Melville rough draft for Animal Farm

In "Animal Farm" the way character's respond to the stories has a stong impact on their ability to survive. The first character by the name of squealer is the one who twists stories. A perfect example is the issue with the beds, he say's "you have heard then, comrades" he said "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? And why not? You did not suppose , surley, that there was ever a ruling against beds? a bed , properly regarded. The thing was that it was not allowed for the animals to sleep in the beds because it was against the rules. Another issue was the incident when the milk and apples were stolen. The pigs had stole them. The story was that they needed it to do brain work. The last story was about boxer's death. Squealer told everyone that he was sold, and that he had died in the hospital. Since Squealer twist stories so much he became rich and powerful becuase he able to master the stories.

Benjamin on the other hand does not get wrapped up in the dabates and stories. The reason for this is becuase he does not believe everything he is told. Since he is older he does not believe it all because he know's better. When the windmill is wrecked everyone ecspecially Napolean blames snowball who is no longer on the farm, except Benjamin becuase from his point of view it would have been impossible for a little pig to damage the windmill. The story about Boxer's death is unbelievable to Benjamin. The reason for this is that he heard that Boxer was at the hospital and died their. Since Benjamin was able to read he was able to read the sign on the wagon on which was actually taking Boxer to the slaughter house, which means that he did not believe the story being told about boxer's death. Benjamin is able to survive because he does not believe everything that he is told.

Boxer is one of the animals who believes all stories. One of the stories is the animals were killed. He questioned it when squealer questioned and pursuaded them that the story of the animals being killed true. Boxer also thought that Napolean was always right. Boxer figured that since he was now in charge and since Snowball wasn't there to tell him the truth he figured Napolean was alway's telling the truth. In the end Boxer dies he his sent to the sluaghter house.

Annotation for Thompson

This artical is about a slaved named Nat Turner who started a rebellion to that killed up to 55 whites. Nat Turner claimed that he 3 visions in which provoked him into doing the rebellion. Some he stated were signs from god, and spirits as well as in his prayers. The rebellion ended when the militia broke it up, 15 slaves were captured and hanged. Turner ran and hid out somewhere until he was eventually found and sentenced to death in which he was hanged and skinned.

Ms. Melville Animal Farm paragraph 10-22-08

In "Animal Farm" the animals accept Napolean's lies for many reasons. The first reason is that now that he was now in charge every was suppose to believe that all of what he said was true. Napolean wanted to have his own way, and all of the animals do what he wants. The animals also just believed him becuase the knew ni better, just that everything he said was to be true.The second reason is when the storm came and wrecked the windmill. After the windmill was wrecked Napolean started blaming Snowball for this crime. He said "comrades" do you know who is responsible for this, do you know who is the enemy who came in the night.The final reason is that the animals have no choice but to believe his lies. The reason for this is becuase Snowball wasn't there to tell them the truth. As well as the animals not being all that smart and could not tell whether or not Napolean was telling the truth. In conclusion these are of the reasons why the animals accept Napolean's lies.

Ms. Melville IRB October 18, 2008

Title- Someone to love Me
Author- Anne Schraff
page # 47 chapter 4
Summary- While her mom is still away at vegas with her boyfriend, cindy still is upset about her unplanned leaving. Cindy decides to go hang out with some that she met at school to get her mind of her mom, is not comfortable with where he has taken her.

Ms. Melville IRB 10/13/08

Title- Someone to Love Me
Author-Anne Schraff
Book #-47
Conflict-Cindy's mom has left her for the weekend to go with her boyfriend in Vegas, cindy is real upset that her mom has left her home alone again.

1st annotation Oct #3

The first cited information on my nhd person in which changed to Nat Turner was from the internet. I went to a site called "Africans in America/part 3/ Nat Turner's Rebellion. This site was helpful for me in so many ways, it gave Alot of infomoration that i needed. The research is a secondary resorce, becuase it was written about him by someone else, but at the same time it was facts about him and his life as well as the rebellion. This information was to inform the reader's who want to learn or find out more on Nat Turner.

Ms. Melville IRB Homework 10-3-08

Title- "Someone to love Me"
Author- Anne schraff
Page- 30
Summary- What has happened so far in the story is about this girl named Cindy who is dealing with her lack of self-esteem, her mom never being there for her and to make matters worse her mom's boyfriends taunts her occasionally about how ugly she is which makes cindy feel even more bad about herself.
Rating 1-10 - i would give this book a 5 so far since i just statrted reading it, but it seems that this story will become more intersesting as I continue reading it.

Ms. Melville Liberty or Equality paragraph

Saffronia Robinson

Ms. Melville

English 1

october 3, 2008

Zaroff Paragraph

In the Story "The Most Dangerous Game" I have learned that Zaroff values liberty more than equality because of these three reasons. One is that he enjoys hunting, not just animals but humans as well. The reason why he enjoys hunting humans is because hunting animals to him is no longer fun even though he has hunted everything  from the Cape Buffalo to tigers it has become boring to him. On the other hand hunting humans is more fun to him because he likes the excitment and the thrill of it all. Not only is it exciting to him but he also believes that those who are not strong and are "scums of the earth" are not important in his eyes and he goes out to hunt them for his own enjoyment.