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Animal Farm Chapter 5 & 6

Response to Literature — Finding Supporting Quotations
Identifying Quotes & Analyzing Significance
A Response to Literature prompt asks you to take your own personal opinions and answer the prompt,
using examples from the literature to support your ideas.
Some broad examples of prompts are:
 How does the main character change throughout the story? What do you think causes the
change? What does this story say about society in general? In what ways does this story remind
you of people you have known or experiences you have had in your own life?
 How successful was the author in creating good literature? Support your response with
examples from the story.
 Choose one of the following quotations from the story. How does this quotation relate to the
elements of the story such as characters or theme?
In each of these examples, it will be necessary to know exactly how to take quotations from the text and
make them work for you in your essay. Additionally, it is necessary to have the text in front of you in
order to find quotes to support your response. To practice extracting and using quotations for an essay,
complete the activity below.
Prompt: In Chapter Six, Napoleon begins to reintroduce humans and human behavior to the farm. To
justify the pigs’ actions, one of the Commandments is altered. As a leader, Napoleon has become more
and more unethical and distrustful. Using examples from Chapters Five and Six, explore the evidence
that Napoleon is quickly turning into a tyrant over Animal Farm. Identify direct quotes to support
your response and in a well-written, cohesive statement explain its significance. Find at least 8
however, you can find more.
Direct Quote, Page(s) Significance
“Throughout the spring and summer, they Napoleon has no sympathy for the animals, and
worked a sixty-hour week, and in August in fact, is working them even harder than Jones
Napoleon announced that there would be work did.
on Sunday afternoons as well” (PG. 44).
"no more food than they had in Jone's day, at Nothing really changed with the topic of food
least they did not have less" (PG 62 ). they still got the exact same.

"There was need of paraffin oil, nails , string, dog They are saying that none of those are produced
biscuits,and iron for the horses shoes none of on the area of the farm.
which could be produced on the farm"(PG 62)

"Napoleon announced that he had decided upon
a new policy. From now onwards Animal Farm
would engage in trade with the
neighbouring farms: not, of course, for any
commercial purpose, but
From then on they will now be trading their good
for other goods on the neighboring farms, for the
reason of getting the materials that they really
really need.
simply in order to obtain certain materials which
were urgently
necessary"(PG 62-63).
"The hens, said Napoleon, should The hens sacrificed something to tell napoleon
welcome this sacrifice as their own special that it was great special contribution from them.
contribution towards the
building of the windmill"(PG 63).
"Finally Napoleon raised Napoleon,made an announcement that the
his trotter for silence and announced that he had animals will have no absolute reason to talk or
already made all the engage in any contact with humans which no
arrangements. There would be no need for any of one would want.
the animals to come in
contact with human beings, which would clearly
be most undesirable"(PG 64).
''Animal farm and the outside world, but there Napoleon is contradicting the commandment
were constant rumors that Napoleon was about stating that human's are enemies. By working
to enter into a definite business agreement with a human, he's completely overwriting what
either with Mr.Pilkington of Foxwood or with they fought for.
Mr.Frederick of Pinchfield - but never, it was
noticed, with both simultaneously"(PG 66).
"No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets".(PG He went against the commandment talking about
67). animals not using beds humans slept on. Feeding
the animals the lie that it was only about not
using beds with sheets.