Animal Farm-North Korea and Kim
Jong-Un
Jennie Fragale
Cameron County High School
Composition 1
Animal
Farm is about the animals rebelling from Mr. Jones, the man that owned the
farm and all other human beings. One of
the older pigs, Old Major, asked all of the animals to come together for a
meeting. Major explained that he was old
and would not be with the animals much longer.
He wanted to share his wisdom with the other animals before his
death. Old Major told the animals that
humans are their only real enemy and without them, life would be better. Old Major brought reality to the table when
he warned the animals. Old Major
explained that all of the animals will be slaughtered by Mr. Jones once they
are old and useless (Orwell, G. pg 15-24, 1946).
Major closed the meeting by reminding
the animals that whatever walks with two legs is bad and whatever walks with
four legs or has wings is good. Also, he
said the animals must never in anyway act like a human by living in a house,
sleeping in a bed, wearing clothes, drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco, touching
money, or engaging in trade. Finally,
Major closed with reminding the animals that they are all equal and they should
never under any circumstance kill another animal. Major taught the animals the song called
“Beasts of England” and the animals became very excited.
Only three
nights later, Old Major died while he was asleep. The animals now had a completely different
outlook on life because of Old Major.
The pigs began teaching all of the animals the rules. The pigs that taught the other animals were
Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball. They
held secret meetings every night once Mr. Jones was asleep to discuss their
Animalism ways. Most of the animals did
not understand why they had to rebel against Mr. Jones because he fed
them. However, the pigs had two very
loyal horses that listened to them, Boxer and Clover. The two horses had a hard time forming their
own thoughts and views; therefore, they allowed the pigs to teach them without
any objection.
One day, Mr.
Jones went out and got very drunk. He did not return to the farm until the next
day and the animals were very hungry.
When Jones got home, he did not feed the animals, he went rabbiting. When he returned, he went to sleep. The cows could not take the hunger anymore
and made a ruckus by breaking into a shed to get food. Jones and some other farm workers came
outside and whipped the animals but the animals fought back and kicked
them. The men could not defend
themselves any longer. They all gave up
and ran away. Jones took a few
necessities and fled the farm.
The animals
had successfully achieved the rebellion and there were no longer any humans on
the farm. They celebrated by destroying
everything that reminded them of Jones and sang “Beasts of England” seven
times.
The pigs
told the animals that they had taught themselves to read and write from an old
spelling book. They painted out “Manor
Farm” on the wall and decided that it would be called Animal Farm from now on. Snowball and Napoleon explained how they had
put Animalism into seven commandments and wrote them on the wall. The Seven Commandments were:
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall ever wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal (Orwell, G. pg 33, 1946).
When a new
litter of puppies was born, Napoleon decided to take them under his wing to
give them an education. No one ever saw
the puppies except for Napoleon.
Napoleon and
Snowball did not agree on anything. They
fought all the time including at the daily meetings. Snowball would put on amazing speeches to
lure the animals to be on his side for every debate but Napoleon had more
logical facts that caught many animals’ attention. Napoleon and Snowball got into the biggest
fight when the topic of building a windmill came up. Napoleon wanted no part of the windmill but
Snowball worked out all of the plans to build it. The animals all looked at the plans daily
except for Napoleon. However, one day,
Napoleon looked at all of the plans thoroughly.
It was going
to be very difficult to build the windmill and Snowball was aware of it. Napoleon thought they should focus more on
food production than a windmill.
Snowball put on a ridiculous speech to convince the animals to vote for
the windmill and Napoleon did not put up with his nonsense. Napoleon whistled and nine dogs that were
ready to attack appeared. They ran right
after Snowball and the pig ran as fast as he could. The dogs were so close to catching him but
Snowball jumped into a hole by a hedge and got away. Snowball was expelled from the farm.
From that
day, everything began to change.
Napoleon decided to start building the windmill and claimed that it was
originally his idea. He supposedly
expelled Snowball for stealing his idea.
Napoleon estimated that it would take two years. They started building and soon found out that
it was going to be a very difficult job.
Napoleon
started bending the commandments for himself.
He began trading goods to get supplies for the windmill. The pigs moved into Jones’s house and slept
in beds. The animals were bothered that
the commandments were not be followed by the pigs.
One day, the animals woke up to their
progress on the windmill destroyed.
Napoleon automatically blamed Snowball and told the animals if they
found him, there would be a reward.
The animals
became annoyed with Napoleon and some started rebelling against him. Napoleon ordered every animal to confess if
they had been rebelling against him and working for Snowball. Four pigs admitted to collaborating with
Snowball to destroy the windmill. The
pigs were soon killed. Then the hens admitted
to not laying enough eggs for the week’s quota.
They were also slaughtered. This
went on with many other animals.
Napoleon and
Kim Jong-Un, the leader of North Korea, are similar because Kim ordered for his
blood family to be killed. Napoleon had
pigs, his own kind, slaughtered by dogs.
Kim accused his uncle to be a drug user and a womanizer and had dogs
slaughter his as well (nydailynews.com. pg. 1).
Kim supposedly saved some of the in-laws
of Jang’s. The family that was not
killed had to move to another village (nydailynews.com. pg. 1).
Napoleon and
Kim Jong-Un are similar because they both murdered people and animals when they
were not supposed to. Freedom
Outposts states that “This past week, a South Korean newspaper reported that at least 80 people
were put to death for "owning Bibles and watching television."
Consistent with prior executions committed by the Kim Jong-Un regime, this
particular story of mass murder has merit.
Kim Jong gathered 10,000 people to
watch the executions. He made the people
witness the murders. This proves his
corrupt ways (Freedom Outposts. pg.1).
The remaining animals in Animal
Farm were traumatized after the slaughtering happened. They were too afraid to do anything wrong and
kept quiet. They would not rebel against
Napoleon because of fear. They knew they
would be slaughtered just like the other animals if they rebelled against
him. Then Napoleon announced that
“Beasts of England” would not be sung anymore.
The animals were very upset and did not understand Napoleon‘s ways. Napoleon had completely disobeyed the
commandments but always made an adjustment to the list whenever he did not
follow it.
One day,
animals from a neighboring farm, Fredrick, came to Animal Farm. They were messing around the almost finished
windmill that the animals had spent two years working on. Soon the animals all ran away and there was a
loud noise and smoke. When the smoke
cleared, Napoleon and the other animals saw that the windmill had been
destroyed once again.
The windmill
building process began for the third time and no one ever got a break. The animals went hungry very often except for
the pigs and dogs. Even when the animals
were hungry and tired, Napoleon had them convinced that life was better without
Jones and that they were living in the best living conditions in their
lifetime.
Animal
Farm and North Korea are similar because the people of North Korea seem to
be brainwashed. The people are terrified
to speak out because they are afraid it would harm themselves and their
family. If they were to speak out
against the wrong doings of Kim Jong, they could be put into what is similar to
a concentration camp. North Korea denies that there are such camps but up to
120,000 people work in the camps (news.ph.msn.com. pg.1).
Although the people of North Korea
are aware of what will happen to them if they disobey Kim Jong-Un, they are
able to handle it better than Americans could.
They have witnessed many murders and although it bothers them, they
continue to go on with normal life. In Animal Farm, the animals were
bothered very much by the slaughters but they also continued on with normal
life (news.ph.msn.com. pg.1).
Many years
went by and everything was different.
There was only one commandment by this point and it was “All animals are
equal-But some animals are more equal than others.”
Animal
Farm is similar to North Korea’s government because countrystudies states
“The cult of personality, the nepotism of the Kim family, and the strong
influence of former anti-Japanese partisan veterans and military leaders are
unique features of North Korean politics”.
Also, Kim Sung had prepared Kim Jong
more many years to take over the corrupt country. In Animal Farm, Napoleon makes sure
that the pigs have more power over every other animal just the Un’s when they
keep the leadership in their family (countrystudies. pg. 1).
Kim Jong Un orders all relatives of executed uncle to be
killed: report. (n.d.). NY Daily News.
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