Christos Zagoras

Fall 2012

Essay #2

Professor Van Slyk

Dear animal farm :

I’m here to talk to all of you and want to address my feelings about what has happened here in animal farm. Just ask yourselves a question and think to yourself were we really being treated equally?   Were you really happy when Jones left and the pigs took over this farm? Were the commandments really being obeyed?  Think about that to yourselves and think about if things really have changed for the better.

The day Old Major made that historical speech to all of us in the farm, he gave us a vision of a whole new world that we always dreamed of. That speech was the start of something that gave us the will and strength to overcome Mr. Jones and the unfair living conditions in the farm. When that day came, when we had control over the farm, it was the greatest day of my life and I’m pretty sure it was the same for most of you. We all saw how everything started out great with the establishment of the commandments and how the commandments represented all of us as one. Then we started to see a change in power of a certain race of animals. That animal was the pig! They were not loyal to the farm and to what Old Major stood for. One point old major said in his speech was how the human (Mr. Jones) would use our goods such as milk and eggs and sell them to make money. I guess the pigs didn’t take that into consideration when the apples and milk went missing to be used for their own good when we had to hear Squealer talk nonsense about how they dislike milk and apples but that they needed to preserve their health since they are the brain workers. Here is how squealer lies to us; “comrades! You do no imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself”. (Orwell 35) Then they had the nerve to use the threat of Mr. Jones coming back for us to give up our natural goods.                                                                                                             You don’t see that the pigs are just making a mockery of us and using Squealer as their spokesmen. Like the moment when rumors went around about the pigs sleeping on a bed which we all know it as a violation of the commandments.                                                                                  Squealer came again with his famous excuses and made the rule seem in his favor. This is what he had to say “you did not suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a place to sleep in. a pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. The rule was against sheets, which are human invention.”(Orwell 67).  I’m sick and tired of being lied to and always being told that they need human comfort and comfort for the sake of their brainwork. If that’s the case I think it’s time to make a new set of commandments just for pigs because they are starting to sounds more like humans.                                                                                   Being threatened by the idea of Mr. Jones coming back to run the farm sounds more like a cover up so we can give the pigs whatever they want. As a farm we should never have put these pigs in power and should have taken more time before we put any animal in that position. It should have been more of a process and of a building system before we put any animal into power. In the end I’m happy to say we are looking forward to a new start in Manor Farm where animals can be free!