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 * __Animal Farm __**

//A depiction of the amount of effort the cat put forth into// //creating and maintaining the well being of Animal Farm.// __The Cat, paralled to conmen and the flaws in communism __
 * During Old Major's speech, when the animals took a vote to determine whether the rats were comrades or not, the cat voted both sides showing she could not make her own decisions; she just followed others.
 * In Animal Farm the cat stayed away from any conflict that occured on the farm.
 * The cat closely resembles some of the reasons why communism failed.
 * The cat hardly participated in any hard labor yet was able to share in all of the rewards.
 * The cat was a parallel to the shady citizens in Russia, such as conmen or gypsies.
 * She also would provide multiple excuses but would use her purr to con the other animals that her intensions were good
 * She did not really care about what was going on around the farm.
 * Her main concern was that she always had a warm place to sleep and food to eat.
 * The only person the cat looked out for was herself.
 * When the animals created different commitees, the cat joined the commitee to recruit other animals into animalism; instead of helping, she tried to con the new- comers into becoming her next meal.
 * When Napolean ordered all of the animals to meet in the farm house for the "great slaughter of the betrayers," the cat disappeared avoiding any conflict.
 * She was never a part of the bad; she only took part in the good.

__Quotes to connect the cat to her parallels __
 * ﻿" Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying."pg 5
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">" The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who afterwards to have discovered to have voted both sides" pg 8
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">"The behaviour of the cat was somewhat peculiar. It was soon noticed that when there was work to be done the cat could never be found. She would vanish for hours on end, then reappear at meal times, or in the evening after work was over, as though nothing had happened. But she always made such excellent excuses, and purred so effectionately, that it was impossible not to believe in her good intentions." pg 21
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">"They had made their way on to the little knoll where the half-finished windmill stood, and with one accord they all lay down as though huddling together for warmth- Clover, Muriel, Benjamin, the cows, the sheep, and a whole flock of geese and hens- everyone, indeed, except the cat who had suddenly disappeared just before Napolean ordered the animals to assemble." pg 59

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 * ~ **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 150%;">Communism ** ||~ **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 150%;">Flaws in Communism ** ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Communism believes in equality **through force** || **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Equality through force lef to the death of many people such as, **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">innocent animals on the farm that Napolean had slaughtered ** ||
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">everyone earned the same amount ** || **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">The people who worked extremely hard earned just as much as those who worked at all.Boxer woke up an hour before all of the animals so he could work, but was fed the same amount as the catwho disappeared when there was any work that was to be done ** ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Communism believes in destroying religion and absolute morality found by religion || **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Civilians in communist countries were all forced to think the same and when you disobeyed you were killed such as how Hitler killed Jewish families who did not have the same views as he did. ** ||


 * [] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">﻿-﻿this link will help you to understand what went wrong, and why communism failed.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> [] - this link will help you to understand what communism was like in the 1930's and see the similarties between communism in real life and animalism in the book
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> [] - if you want to understand communism in its entirety this link will be a lot of help.

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">﻿<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">﻿Work Cited __  Orwell, G. 1946. Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Animal Farm. <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">﻿ [] Philosophy of Communism. 2002. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[]