Symbolism and Allegory Unit Reflection

Over the past few weeks we have gone over all different types of symbolism and allegory one of the things that we learned from in symbolism was “Through the Tunnel” I think that story had a lot of different symbolism because through out the story the reader experienced a lot of different things with the boy. For example when he went from the safe beach to the rocky beach we as the reader were able to experience the change from child to adolescent. In the “Animal Farm” we experienced allegory. We experienced allegory through the animals and through the reading, for example the animals meant something completely different. My favorite symbolism was “Through the Tunnel” because I felt like I could relate to it more and I felt like I got a better understanding of the story. Studying Symbolism and Allegory has change my thinking to the point were I start looking deeper into what I am reading and to try and figure out the real meaning of things.

“Animal Farm” Character’s Symbolic Meaning Paragraph

In the story “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, the character Napoleon represents Dominance and Dictatorship. For example he has a follower they believe every thing he says “What I say is always true, is that understood.” This shows that people looked up to him and by him saying that it shows that he wants people to follow after him. In addition he had the most loyal side kick Squealer. Squealer will do anything for Napoleon and that is why he is loyal to him, even lie for him “Snowball took Napoleons idea and that is why at first Napoleon denied the windmill idea” This shows that even through Squealer was loyal to Napoleon he was very un-loyal and un-trustworthy to all the other animals. People who are like Napoleon and Squealer they are both very bad people to be around and they need extreme help mentally, if they were humans they would be the kind of people like Hitler, because in a way they want to dictate everything they want people to follow them. The pigs on the farm are a lot like people they all know what is right but they still decided to do what is wrong and that is just they way life is.

Animal Farm to the Real World

In the story Animal Farm by George Orwell, when the two pigs Napoleon and Squalor kind of began a dictator ship has allegorical meaning. For example, they both stuck together and they turned all of the other animals on the pig snowball also when they stared to break the rules and changing them to fit what they needed it to say. This represents how in other places and communities people began to break rules and had rules to fit what they need also hoe they alter rules, and they tend to start having people turn on one another even close friends turn their back on one another, Additionally, when every animal believed that what Napoleon said was true and how every animal followed Napoleon as their leader. This represents how people can be very easily influenced and will how people just like the animals in the story can fall into traps when the evidence is staring them in the face they still go with what they think is right. Even though most stories about animals are written for children, this story has a meaning that everyone should know about and should learn at any point in their life so that they don’t fall into any traps.

“Animal Farm” Revolution at SPA

If the students of SPA had a revolution and took over the campus it would be a complete disaster. If the students did take over SPA I would imagine this is how it would be. The students will be free to do what ever they wanted. If the students were to have a revolution the laws would be very lax. This is how it would be all of the students will gang together and go against the staff. But the kids were really creative. They will all talk and come together and plan on a day a Saturday, at 4pm they will all forward a text message to all the other students telling them to run to the auditorium but not every one just have one person stay back. And if every kid ran out the house they wouldn’t know what do. When the staff all start calling and chasing after the kids the one that was left in the house will take the door and lock it, then go and disable the alarm so that they can lock out the staff but let other kids in. The students will run to the auditorium nailing the windows shut and lock the staff in there. So they are free to do what ever they want with out having to worry about staff. And this will they will it will be until the staff get smart and learn how to break out, or until they call the police.