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Animal Farm

plot summary of first five chapters

By: Rabia, Kemal, Zehra, Nuran.


• Mr. Jones, the owner of the Manor Farm, closed the door of
the coop as he did every night and went to bed in his room .
The Old Major (the farm pig to earn the respect of all
animals) summoned them to tell the other animals about the
dream he had had recently. He cleared his throat and began
to speak: "I will come to the dream later. It can be summed
up in one word: human. Our only real enemy is Human. We
must consume man's lineage." Comrades, I can talk about
the dream I had last night. When I was a little pig my
mother used to sing an old song. The song is called Animals
of England. " The Old Major cleared his throat and started to

Mr. Jones woke up. ... Mr. Jones woke up and soon the
sing, the animals followed him and they sang repedetly until

whole farm fell asleep.


CHAPTER 1
• Chapter 2 starts with the death of Old Major, early in
March, three nights after the speech he gave. After the

perspective on life. They were slowly organizing and


speech, the animals of the farm had gained a different

would happen in their lifetime. The pigs in the farm


preparing for the rebellion, though they did not think it

them were Snowball, Napeleon, and Squealer.


were known as the cleverest and the pre-eminent of

CHAPTER 2
of thought and named it “ Animalism ”. They started
• These three turned Old Major’s teachings into a system

the principles of Animalism. Some of the animals did


holding secret meetings in the barn in order to explain

and took care of them. However, there were more


not like the idea, claiming that humans were who fed

animals that agreed with the pigs, so in a short time

earlier than they had expected.


period the word was spread and rebellion was achieved
r . Jones had started becoming careless and disheartened after losing
Money in a lawsuit, his men were also idle and lazy. They were not
• M

animals unfed. June came and things continued like this. One day,
taking care of the farmthe way they had to, and even leaving the

the evening had come, but the animals were unfed. They couldn’t

r . Jones and his men up, they rushed to the farmand


stand it longer and one of the cows broke the door in the store-shed
and that woke M

rushed to escape. İn a few minutes, every human in the farmwere


they suddenly found themselves being attacked by the animals and they

expelled fromthe farm. The animals hurried to destroy and wipe out
all the traces of humans in the farm; chains, bits, halters, whips,

into the well .


and other implements stored in the farmbuildings were all thrown
• After that, the animals enjoyed their dominance in the

than went to sleep. On the following day the animals


farm and sang “The Beasts of England” several times

went in the farmhouse to explore, at the end they all

and that no animal would live in it.


decided that the house would be preserved as a museum

• A fter th e fo llo w in g th ree m o n th s, th e p ig s rev ealed th at


they had learned to read and write, than Snowball

Farm”. Snowball and Napoleon introduced “The Seven


replaced the inscription “Manor Farm” to “Animal

side of the big barn.


Commandments” of Animalism and painted them in the
• 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 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.

own. Before they move to the hayfield, the pigs milk the cows.
After that, the animals decide to bring in the harvest on their

tell them not to worry about it. So they leave the buckets of
The animals wonder what to do with buckets of milk, the pigs

buckets aren’t there anymore.


milk there and go to the hayfield, but when they return, the
• In chapter 3 time passes and animals achieve success with
their own harvest, the biggest of all time. Now they’re
working faster and better. Meanwhile the pigs are the
supervisors, horses (Boxer and Clover) are the most
productive. But every animal gets involved, even the

stray and prevent waste. But later on they discover that


ducks and hens are helping by picking up left pieces of

from cows. Squealer the pig which does the talking


pigs take the apples and the milks which are produced

milk because they do all the brainwork.


convinces the other animals that the pigs need apples and

CHAPTER 3
• Boxer now works harder than ever. It seems that only

much working. Sundays mornings are flag ceremonies


Molly and the cat who always finds excuses doesn’t do

and meeting days. Pigs, Napoleon and Snowball start to

singing the Beasts of England. The rest of the day is


fight a bit but the meetings always end peacefully and by

spent with relaxation. But there are some dark clouds in


the horizon. The pigs want to teach other animals read but
only some can only pass the letter D. Jessie the dog
which was pregnant gives birth to nine puppies and

b est ed u catio n . B en jam in (th e d o n k ey )k n o w s an d


Napoleon keeps the puppies saying he will give them the

understands what’s going on but does nothing about it.


• In chapter 4 Snowball and Napoleon start to spread the
rebellion to other farms and teach the Beasts of England.
A n d M r. Jo n es tells h is o w n sid e o f sto ry in th e v illag e.
Other farmers Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Frederick ignore
Mr. Jones but also scared that their animals would do
such things too. But slowly small rebellions start to take
place in other farms too. In October Mr. Jones and others
try to take over the farm. Snowball gets injured from Mr.
Jones’s son’s bullet. Boxer kills one of the farmers and

second class. Where Napoleon, Snowball and Boxer are


one of the sheep gets killed and honored as animal hero

animal hero first class for their bravery.

CHAPTER 4
farmsworking. However, it has become apparent that
• Winter had come, and the animals were at the

Mollie is quickly losing interest working in the farm.


W ith tim e, M o llie w o rk s v ery little an d h as b eco m e less
productive. In the long run, Clover realizes that Mollie
is being lured by Pilkington to go and work for him.

work for Pilkington. Eventually, the Animal Farm loses


Mollie has been induced by material gains to go and

Molly to Pilkington's farm. As Mollie disappears, the


pigeons come back with a report that Mollie has been

he had coveted so much.


seen standing by a pub and he wearing the ribbons that

CHAPTER 5
animals. They make all the policies and laws which they
• The pigs have become extremely powerful over the other

take to the animals for ratification by way of a vote.

favor of the new policies. Meanwhile, Snowball and


However, the animals have no other option but to vote in

Napoleon have not ceased their arguments. One of the

knoll. Snowball is in support of the mill as he argues


most divisive debates concerns building a windmill on a

that it will save on effort and time. On the other side,


Napoleon argues against the mill saying that it will take

p ro d u ctio n d u rin g its co n stru ctio n .


away much of the labor that will be required in food
• Napoleon and Snowball also disagree on whether it

p ig eo n s to sen d o u t th e n ew s o f reb ellio n to th e o th er


would be prudent to have an armory of guns or use

farm s. O n S u n d ay w h en an im als are to v o te co n cern in g

h is n in e d o g s to ch ase S n o w b all o u t o f th e farm . F ro m


the windmill, Napoleon frustrates the voting by sending

this day, Napoleon gives a decree stopping all the

would guide the farm.


debates and then goes ahead to create new rules that
S n o w b all leav es th e farm , N ap o leo n o rd ers fo r th e
• To the surprise of the animals, three weeks after

building of the farm. Then he sends Squealer to go and


inform all the other animals that the building of the

S n o w b all.
windmill was his idea but had been stolen from him by

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