Let-Down Animal Farm

As a high school student, I see a lot of teenagers being let down. Whether it’s by their classmates, friends, or boyfriend/girlfriend. I know that I have experienced a time where I told one of my best friends something that I trusted them with then they went and told another girl. In Animal Farm, the animals are let down by many characters. This lead to the failure of the farm and many disastrous deaths. George Orwell believes that people should be careful with who they are loyal to because they can be let down.
Mr. Jones is a character that lets the animals on the farm down. He became depressed after losing his money in a lawsuit. This made him start to give up on the farm and the animals. The living conditions when Mr. Jones was the owner of the farm were not great because he seemed to get drunk and not care for the animals. “His men were idle and dishonest, the …show more content…
His main purpose is to help take care of the animals. Snowball wanted better living conditions and easier jobs for the animals so, he came up with a plan that set up “Animal Committees.” The committees included, “Egg Production Committee for the hens, Clean Tails League for the cows, the Wild Comrades’ Re-Education Committee (the object was to tame the rats and rabbits), the Winter Wool Movement for the sheep, and various others.” (Orwell 15) He also instituted classes for reading and writing. When the argument about the windmill broke out, Snowball was for it because it would cut back on how much time the animals had to work and the jobs would be easier. Napoleon was against building the windmill because he thought it would take time and would take away from the main thing the animals needed to worry about which was producing food. Napoleon set his loyal dogs on Snowball and they chased him off of the farm. The animals felt as if he had abandoned them because he did not return with a plan to take over Napoleon and his