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brycelongboards
brycelongboards
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High School - 9th Grade

What happens to Snowball during the meeting about the windmill?

What events in Soviet history does this scene suggest.

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Posted by brycelongboards on Friday October 30, 2009 at 3:44 PM and tagged with animal farm, chapter 5-7, characters, meeting, snowball, windmill.

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  1. pohnpei397 Teacher
    Community / Jr. College

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    In the meeting about the windmill, Snowball is arguing that the windmill will free the animals from the need to work.  Napoleon, who disagrees with Snowball about the need for the windmill, calls in nine dogs to chase Snowball from the farm.

    This episode in the book is meant to allude to the struggle for power between Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky after the death of Lenin.  Stalin eventually drove Trotsky out of the Soviet Union and into exile.  After Trotsky was exiled, his name and his ideas were deleted from all Soviet histories.

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    Posted by pohnpei397 on Friday October 30, 2009 at 5:58 PM