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lashay23
lashay23
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High School - 11th Grade

How is Mr. Jones portrayed in the first chapter of "Animal Farm"?

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Posted by lashay23 on Thursday April 23, 2009 at 12:25 PM and tagged with animal farm, chapter 1, characters, jones.

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  1. mwestwood
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    Mr Jones, as a human, in "Animal Farm" is portrayed by Old Major as typical, the root problem of their troubles.  According to the old boar, humans only consume, stealing from them all;  it is the animals who produce but the humans feed them little. Mr. Jones is also cruel in other ways; Old Major predicts that once the old horse, Boxer, the hardest worker on the farm, is no longer productive, Mr. Jones will get rid of him. The meeting of the animals who plan revolt breaks up when the drunken Mr. Jones hears them singing the song "Beasts of England" that Old Major remembers from his youth and he fires off his shotgun.  

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    Posted by mwestwood on Thursday April 23, 2009 at 3:14 PM