Animal Farm novel Step 1: What parts of the plot seem related to a possible theme in the novel? (Think about the main conflict and how it get resolved or worked out.
Step 2: Which characters seem related to a possible theme? Which characters change, and what do those changes suggest about people, power, or life.
Step 3: How does George Orwell use symbols to hint at the novel’s themes? What objects, people, or places stand for something “bigger” in the story?
Step 4: What does the novel’s title suggest about the novel’s theme? Why do you think Orwell named his allegory Animal Farm?
Step 5: Write one or two of the novel’s main themes in your own words.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

The travels of marco polo. which sentence best reflects author’s subjective perspective on the people of japan?

Assuming that the character maydelle is a symbol what does she most plausibly represent