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Main Theme: Locations and Ideas compared and contrasted

Chanco’s Essay:

The Heavens

Many people believe in heaven as a place where people go when we die and the idea originated from the religion christianity around 30 to 35 AD. The farm animals believe that there is a place similar to the paradise of Christianity in some cases called Sugarcandy mountain. Much like other religions Christianity believes in a God that lives in heaven whereas the animals from the farm don’t follow a specific religion and do not have a certain being of power in Sugarcandy mountain.

Most of the knowledge of Heaven comes from the passages of the Bible, a book which talks about practices of Christianity, while Sugarcandy Mountain comes from a bird named Moses, a tamed raven that spreads stories about their paradise. The Bible talks about how people will be happy or content with their situation in Heaven which is also the case with Sugarcandy mountain as it has many properties that favor the animals. Though these places are told by different people, the places themselves may or may not even exist in their universes.

In Orwell’s depiction of Heaven, Sugarcandy mountain has sugar treats growing on their hedges alongside the season always being the season of clover whereas Heaven may or may not even have these things due to nothing of the sort being stated in the Bible. Both depictions of after-death paradise are said to be in the skies or the “heavens” as some may say.

Though rather obvious, Sugarcandy mountain in Orwell’s book is said to be the paradise for the animals to subside, while in real life, the Bible states that humans may go to heaven when they pass away. In Orwell’s book, there was no stated opposite to paradise other than it being possibly their mortal lives while the Bible talks of a place called “Hell” which is a place you go to when one suffers for the sins they have committed in their lives.

In Orwell’s book, Moses would say these tales of Sugarcandy Mountain but the pigs would try to persuade the animals that there is no such place that exists but instead is nothing but a fairy tale. The Communist party writings from Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin say that the idea of religion is “the opiate of the people” and they decided to ban the religion and persecute anyone that practices said religion.

In conclusion, both humans and animals in each universe have a place that they can call paradise when they die.

Mariano’s Essay:

The Windmill

In Animal farm pigs are the leaders of the farm. The pigs have full control of all the animals and are the leaders. One pig, Napoleon, did a lot of bad things that would lead to the downfall of Animal Farm.

Animal farm’s leader is Napoleon and he is equivalent to Stalin in the USSR. The two characters are both corrupt and manipulate their community in very bad ways. The two are much alike.

In the farm, there was a windmill. The windmill was made because it promised the farm animals that they would have to only work for 3 days a week once it gets finished. The plan was originally by Snowball, another pig.

The windmill symbolizes the manipulation done by the pigs for their own benefit. Napoleon was the one who added corruption when getting the windmill built.

The windmill is very similar to slavery centuries ago. In Africa, a lot of black people were enslaved and were forced to make work for landlords with back-breaking work and abuse them.

George Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a cautionary fable to expose the dangers posed by Stalin and the totalitarian government. The government tried to do something about this because they don’t want Orwell to expose the truths of the totalitarian government. The totalitarian government wasn’t successful in stopping Orwell as Orwell denied the claims. Orwell’s main message in the book is that if you have power, you will eventually become corrupt at some point.

The small things in Animal Farm can relate to real life issues. I think Orwell did a good job at writing the book and I think it’s pretty good. Slavery and corruption is bad and harmful for the society.

Sarmiento’s Essay:

Sugarcandy mountain and Heaven

What is Sugarcandy Mountain and heaven, Sugarcandy Mountain is told to be a paradise where animals go to after death. Heaven is told to be a different realm in which dead people go to, it is also a place that has a ruler called God. A big similarity Heaven and Sugarcandy Mountain have is they are both a paradise to which the dead go to.

The Differences that Heaven has from Sugarcandy Mountain is Heaven has a ruler, other known as a supreme being, This supreme being is the creator of all and the ruler of heaven. He is the person that you have to worship in order to pass through the gates of heaven. Heaven also has a counterpart which is called hell. Another difference that Heaven has is you must not be a sinner, in other words you must not be a person who does bad things.

Meanwhile the difference that Sugarcandy Mountain has from Heaven is Sugarcandy Mountain does not have a ruler, meaning that Sugarcandy Mountain is a free land where all is allowed to enter without worshipping a certain being. While Heaven has a counterpart which is called hell, Sugarcandy Mountain does not have one.Sugarcandy mountain also does not have any requirements at all in entering, unlike heaven which has a lot of requirements.

The similarities between Sugarcandy Mountain and Heaven is both Heaven and Sugarcandy Mountain is a place where the dead go to, they are also both called paradise. Both Sugarcandy Mountain and heaven are said to be found above the clouds, but Sugarcandy Mountain is said to be a “mysterious country” while heaven is a “different realm”.

In conclusion, Sugarcandy Mountain and Heaven may have their similarities and differences but at the end of the day, they are both places in which are called paradise and also a place the dead goes to. A personal opinion that I have is both Heaven and Sugarcandy Mountain are wonderful places in which the people/animals will look forward to after death.

Angeles’ Essay:

Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution

Animal Farm is similar to the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm was written by George Orwell during World War II back in 1945. George wrote this book to expose the Soviet Union by writing it in a way the more people would understand. The characters' personalities and identities were made similar to the people George Orwell wanted to make fun of.

The Animal farm is similar to the Russian Revolution. When it was the tie of the Russian Revolution, people believed in heaven but before that, Karl Marx said that religion was something created to brainwash people or was created so people could be productive. This is similar to Animal Farm because people during the Russian revolution believed in heaven, just like the animals believed in Sugarcandy Mountain. It is also similar because in Animal Farm, Moses was talking about being in a better place, he’d tell the animals that if they worked hard, they would go to a better place similar to what Karl Marx did.

Animal Farm is just like the Russian Revolution because of both their perspective. Both of them has something to do with Communism which is called Animalism in Animal Farm. Animalism is acting like an animal physically and mentally. Another reason why Anime Farm and the Russian revolution was similar is because of Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon. They are the leaders of the Animal Farm, In the Russian Revolution, there is Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky and Joseph stalin. All of them are very similar. Old Major and Karl Marx taught Animalism and Communism which is similar. They both died when the revolution took place.

Snowball is intelligent, a good speaker, and is young. Snowball was chased into exile by Napoleon’s dogs. Just like Leon Trotsky, he was one of the leaders of the revolution, he wanted to improve the lives of the people in Russia, and was chased away by Lenin’s guards which is very similar to Snowball being chased away by Napoleon’s dogs. Napoleon and Joseph Stallin were not good speakers and they both aren’t the smartest leaders either. They both didn’t follow other leaders ideas and was only in it for the power. They both also killed their opponents, used their guards which is also Napoleon’s dogs.

Sevilla’s Essay:

Among Farms and Civilization

Manor Farm and Russia are alike because of their similarities. Animal Farm, known at the beginning and the end of the novel as the Manor Farm, symbolizes Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule. Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.

Manor farm and Russia both had poor leaders, in Manor farm Mr. Jones was cruel and brutal to the animals and was often drunk. In Russia Czar Nicholas II was cruel and brutal to the opponents.

In the Manor Farm they had animalism where they believed that animals should be treated equally. Moses was the one who spreads stories about the Sugarcandy Mountain, it is a place where dead animals go. In Russia they believed in communism. Russian Orthodoxy was the religion Russia believed in.

In the Manor Farm, Mr. Jones neglects the animals, he does not feed the animals and is usually drinking. Czar Nicholas II was a weak and indecisive leader, during his reign the Russian people experienced poverty.

In conclusion the Manor farm and Russia may have similarities and differences but they both had bad leaders who did not know how to properly lead a community.

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