Take one failed Treaty of Versailles, A rotten League of Nations, 3 cruel and selfish fascist leaders, And one communist country, Add a cup of appeasement to start the bubbling, And a few million fuming Germans, Now a pinch of power-hungry Japanese should do the trick, So stir the dish and leave it out to dry for a few years on a brick.
The book Animal farm and the Movie they made about it were both pretty good. They had close similarities but more differences in them. Some of the similarities between the two would include such things as the way that they made the animals. Like the fact that in both the book and the movie Boxer was a hard worker, Snowball, Napoleon, and the other pigs ruled over everyone else, Mr. Jones was the always-drunk farmer that the animals kicked out of his own house, and Napoleon's guard dogs followed him around everywhere. Other similarities would include the main story of both the book and the movie, because of-course the director had to keep the whole idea otherwise it would be a random film about animals living in a farm. Major events and other ideas that made up the story, such as 'The Battle of the Cowshed', the singing of 'Beasts of England', the Seven Commandments, the building of the windmill and its destruction, and basically most of the main points covered in the movie were taken from the book. There are a few similarities between the book and the movie, but there are even more differences. For one, in the movie they never mentioned Clover, Boxer's close friend and companion throughout the whole book. Instead, the director wanted to make less characters which would make the film a little less complicated to understand, so he made Benjamin act as both himself and Clover. Also, at the end of the movie, the other animals broke into the farmhouse and killed all the pigs, but in the book they didn't do anything. They let Napoleon take over everything but had no power over what was happening. There was way too much killing in the movie, for example when they exiled Snowball in the book, they just threw him out of the farm, but they didn't harm him. In the movie they gave the impression that Napoleon's guard dogs tore him apart. Another difference was that they added two more characters to the movie that weren't in the book. The little duckling and the young sheep that appeared from time to time and had some of the funnier moments in the movie were not mentioned in the book. Overall, The movie had more differences that similarities, even if some points were missed in the paragraph above.
p.s- mr.coyle, because we started seeing the movie on Friday i forgot some of the things that happened in the beginning and my 'differences' paragraph is kinda short... :)
Out of all the animals in the book, I think that I'm most like Benjamin, the old donkey. For one, as an eighth grader, I don't have power over the government. Unless I get a group of people to start rebelling against something the government has done, I have no chance to change something they decided. Like Benjamin, who knew what would happen and knew that he wouldn't be able to stop or change it, I am the same. As a part of the people living in my country, I know what's right for me and what we should do, but have no power to actually do anything, which leads to my second reason. Another one of Benjamin's characteristics is that he just doesn't care. He understood that he had no power over the pigs or any of the other animals. Even though he was smart enough to understand that none of this was going to work, he decided to step aside and look at what was happening, always saying in his mind that it was all going the wrong way. Sometimes, when I hear of something that the government has decided to do, like go into a war with a different country, I disagree (or sometimes agree) that it would be the right thing to do, and sometimes I think that I could have better resolutions except fighting and violence. But seeing as I’m not the president, I can’t change anything. Lastly, I think I’m most like Benjamin because I don’t have power over the government and can’t change their decisions, also, since I don’t have power to change what the government thinks is right, I just stop caring and let them make their decisions.
