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Exercise 10: Animal Farm: the hen’s rebellion

Step 1: Identify the narrator’s/author’s main points.  

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Step 1: Identify the narrator’s/author’s main
points.  

Step 2: Describe Squealer’s and Napoleon’s attitude and
tone.  Explain the hens’ rebellion. Referring
to at least three quotes, explain their purpose and their link to the
character’s views.    

  • belittling; dismissive

Step 3: Learn new words and phrases: use in a sentence. Learn four new expressions (words and phrases).  Write these phrases in your own sentence.

  • “Then hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon’s wishes”   (frustrate, foil, hinder)
  • “Napoleon .. decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn.. should be punished by death” ( to ordain; a judicial decision)
  • Then hens “capitulated”  (to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms)

Step 4: What narrative elements are evident?   Use quotes and give explanations.

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