Connections Between Animal Farm and Revolutions

     From the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, he explains a revolution that takes place in a farm. The revolution was started by a pig and he got all the other animals to follow him. Then their revolution begins when they overthrew the humans and developed their own constitution. This story in many ways connect to the real revolutions happening in our world. It explains how a revolution starts and similar characteristics about what would happen.

 What connections did you see between the revolution Orwell described in Animal Farm and the events in Egypt, Tunisia, Honduras, etc.?

     One connection that I found between Animal Farm's revolution and other revolutions around is that they are all fighting for something they are going against. In Animal Farm they started a revolution because the human didn't treat them fairly and they did not feed them one day. Most protesters that are creating a revolution are fighting for similar things such as poverty and the demand to abdicate their rules. "Outside Tunisia and Egypt, Algeria and Jordan are experiencing similar trends where the economic marginalization of young people is driving unrest. Unemployment, housing shortages and food prices hit this group the hardest." Revolutions are mostly because something wrong is going on and the people don't get the right they want.

     Another connection would be that the revolutions mostly starts with one person. In Animal Farm it started off with the pig Major when he had a dream about the future of Animal Farm. When he died, Napoleon ruled over and took over his spot and continued the revolution. Then the other animals in animal farm also combined forces to help out. This is similar to how our revolutions starts. The guy that set himself on fire started a revolution in Tunisia and when other countries such as Egypt heard about it, they started their own revolutions too. From this single event, and what the person did, it caused lots of commotion around. It started to make other countries consider about their problems and so on start an revolution.

     Revolutions spread most of the time and the revolution in Tunisia has influenced other Arab counties to follow on the same road. George Orwell's revolution reflects how revolutions happen around the world. It reflects the cause and outcome of most revolutions

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