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 * Farmer Jones**- Farmer Jones is very drunk all the time and he forgets to feed the animals on a regular basis. He is lazy and the animals are wondering how they ever liked him in the first place. In Russian history, Farmer Jones is known as Czar Nicholas II because of how he is the leader of all the animals. Old Major begins telling the animals about his idea of Animalism and to overthrow Farmer Jones because of how much they dislike him.
 * Mollie**- Mollie is the most vain out of all the animals. She doesn't like the Rebellion because she likes to be pampered and to not have to take care of herself. She is foolish and dumbfounded because can't resist not having her ribbons and being fed sugar lumps. Before long, Clover sees her being petted by a human farmer from another farm, and when she asked her about it, she ran away and was never seen again.
 * Napoleon-** Napoleon was one of the first animals to be in on the uprising. After the animals rebelled against the farmers, Napoleon and Snowball took control of the farm. After a while, Napoleon's greedines took over, and he sent 9 dogs that he had been raising to expell Snowball away from the farm forever. When Snowball was expelled, Napoleon took over the farm as the dictator

Useful Terms: - Jay Gervais
 * Scapegoat-** A person, group, or thing upon which the blame for the mistakes or crimes of others is thrust
 * ex: "**Do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!"- pg. 69-70
 * Utopia- 1** Any idealized place, state, or siruation of perfection **2** Any visionary scheme or system for an ideally perfect society
 * ex:** "This farm of ours would support adozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep--- and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining... Remove man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever."- pg. 7
 * Communism- 1** Any economic theory based on the ownership of a property by the community as a whole **2** A hypothetical stage of socialism formulated by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and others
 * ex:** "All animals are comrades.... No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal."- pg. 10-11
 * Dictator-** A ruler with absolute power and authority, esp. one who excercises it tyrannically
 * ex:** "In these days Napoleon rarely appeared in public, but spent all his time in the farmhouse, which was guarded at each door by fierce-looking dogs. When he did emerge, it was in a ceremonial manner, with an escort of six dogs who closely surrounded him and growled if anyone came too near... he issued his orders through one of the other pigs"- pg. 75-76
 * Fable- 1** A fictional story meant to teach a moral lesson; the characters are usually talking animals **2** A myth or legend **3** A story tht is not true; falsehood
 * ex:** "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."- pg.141- Humans are pigs full of greed.
 * Propaganda- 1** The spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person **2** Ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause
 * ex:** "One night at about twelve o'clock there was a loud crash in the yard, and the animals rushed out of their stalls... at the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in twom pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, mwas sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paintbrush, and an overturned pot of white paint.... Actually the Commandment read: "No animal shall drink alcohol //to excess."//-pg. 108-109
 * Characterazation- Squealr** this charcater is the mouth peice of Napolean. He is the king of propaganda, and lies to al the animals about the reasons for the pigs sleping in beds, drinking alchoal, killing animals.... etc.
 * Moses-** talks about Sugar Candy Mountain were no animal is every hungrey, and food grows on all the bushes and trees
 * Benjamin-**