1. Journal 13: The Jungle of Animal Farm + Capitalism
Learning Targets:
Students will be able to analyze a text to determine its tone by analyzing the various elements that create tone.
Students will be able to examine an allusion and make a claim about the effect it creates.
Students will be able to apply learning of tone and theme to Animal Farm.
Students will be able to make a claim about an author’s perspective.

2. What does Animal Farm author George Orwell think of communism
What does Animal Farm author George Orwell think of communism? Respond with a correct thesis statement (____, _____, and ______) and a piece of evidence and analysis (doesn’t have to be a quote). At least 3 sentences.
Remember: do NOT write in first or second person voice when writing a thesis!
First person voice: “I,” “me,” “myself,” etc.
Second person voice: “You,” “your,” etc.

3. What does Animal Farm author George Orwell think of capitalism?
What does Animal Farm author George Orwell think of communism? Respond with a correct thesis statement (____, _____, and ______) and a piece of evidence and analysis (doesn’t have to be a quote). At least 3 sentences.
What does Animal Farm author George Orwell think of capitalism?

4. (2)What does Animal Farm author George Orwell think of capitalism?

5. Allegories within the Allegory
Here is what we generally “know” so far:
Old Major is some combination of Vladimir Lenin + Karl Marx
Snowball is Leon Trotsky
Napoleon is Joseph Stalin
Mr. Jones is Czar Nicholas II
Boxer is … ?

6. Boxer’s 2 mottos tell us something very important about him
“Napoleon is always right”
“I will work harder”
What do they tell us about his:
intelligence?
loyalty?
hopes for the future?
belief in Animalism (communism)?

7. Boxer’s 2 mottos tell us something very important about him
Boxer’s motto of “I will work harder” is the same as immigrant Jurgis Rudkus’s motto, in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Orwell almost certainly would have read The Jungle.
“Napoleon is always right”
“I will work harder”
What do they tell us about his:
intelligence?
loyalty?
hopes for the future?
belief in Animalism (communism)?

8. Boxer: “I will work harder” Jurgis Rudkus: “I will work harder”
Allusion means reference to something culturally significant to create an effect
Boxer: “I will work harder”
Jurgis Rudkus: “I will work harder”
Published 1942
Communism
Published 1906
Capitalism

9. Directions: The Jungle
Look at the photographs and read your section from the Jungle. DO NOT blankly read it– try and imagine these short scenes and put yourself there.
Record your reactions to what you see/read.
What is the tone (author’s attitude) and mood (atmosphere)?
What were the living or working conditions like under capitalism for the preliterate of Chicago?
Record some key quotes.

10. The Jungle

11. What is the tone of the passage
What is the tone of the passage? Use imagery, word choice, and setting to explain.
Chapter 2 “They were on a street which seemed to run on forever, each side of it one row of wretched little two-story frame buildings. Down every side street they could see, it was the same-- always the same endless vista of ugly and dirty little wooden buildings. Here and there would be a bridge crossing a filthy creek; here and there would be a great factory, a dingy building with innumerable windows in it, and immense volumes of smoke pouring from the chimneys, darkening the air above and making filthy the earth beneath. There were half a dozen chimneys, touching the very sky--and leaping from them half a dozen columns of smoke, thick, oily, and black as night. It was a perpetual explosion. It was inexhaustible; the smoke spread in vast clouds overhead stretching a black pall as far as the eye could reach. There were mountains and valleys and rivers, gullies and ditches, and great hollows full of stinking green water. In these pools the children played, and rolled about in the mud of the streets. One wondered about this, as also about the swarms of flies which hung about the scene, literally blackening the air like locusts. It impelled the visitor to questions and then the residents would explain, quietly, that all this was "made" land, and that it had been "made" by using it as a garbage dumping ground for the city garbage."

12. The Jungle What did you read? What was your impression?
What was the condition like in Chicago for proletariats?
Why would Orwell allude to this book?
What pieces of The Communist Manifesto explain what you read?
Do you think workers get ahead through “working harder” in these early capitalist conditions based on The Jungle?

13. Boxer’s Death (use complete sentences OR write the questions)
What caused his injuries?
What was Boxer’s fate? Was this Napoleon’s worst betrayal?
What were Boxer’s 3 dying wishes?
How could his death be an allegory for the life of the new communist proletariats?
Did working harder get Boxer ahead?

14. Upton Sinclair
an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
He was a socialist, just like Orwell.

15. Allusion means ___________
Boxer: “I will work harder”
Jurgis Rudkus: “I will work harder”
Published 1942
Communism
Boxer over works himself for the common (collective) good, as his communist society dictates he must, leading to his ultimate death in chapter 9
Published 1906
Capitalism
Jurgis over works himself for his own good, as his capitalist society dictates he must leading to his ultimate doom.

16. Boxer allegorically represents the hard working proletariats who were loyal to Russia/Stalin and did everything in their power to see Communism succeed, but were ultimately betrayed by corruption and totalitarianism.

17. Final “Big Idea”
What can we say is Orwell’s opinion of capitalism based on his use of:
Allusions to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Mr. Jones / the other farmers
and the pigs’ rule of Animal Farm?