Similarities Between Going Over And Animal Farm

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In the novels Going Over by Beth Kephart and Animal Farm by George Orwell, the theme those who don’t try, don’t succeed, is shown by Boxer when he declares he will get up three-quarters of an hour earlier than everyone else to do more work, Stefan and Lukas when they escape East Berlin, and all the animals when the windmill is destroyed, twice, they don’t give up, and still get it done by the two year deadline. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Boxer is the farm’s strongest animal. He is not very smart but he can pull, lift, and push harder than anyone else. He is one of the all brawn, no brain kind of character. He declares his personal mottos as “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right” (Animal Farm 56). He had always gotten up

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