Animal farm chapter 3

All animals on the farm have a summer filled with labour and hard work so that they can provide themselves with food. The pigs, the most clever animals on the farm, devise an appropriate plan according to the harvesting capacity of each animal, they try and use the human tools which is slightly bizarre as they all agreed upon the complete removal of all objects that reminded of the men that once enslaved them. Nevertheless, this work and clever system that they have made have forced the farm's producing levels to exceed any limit that it had ever done before. Boxer, the strongest and most powerful animal on the farm, took care of most of the heavy lifting and created his own motto: "I will work harder" to force him to work at his full capacity without fail. Only Mollie and the cat avoided their daily duties. To all, this new system seemed perfectly fair and effectively paid off, but only one animal did not agree upon this; Benjamin. To him this felt like there was no change under their new leadership.

Every Sunday, the animals have a flag-raising ceremony. It has a green background and a white representation of a hoof and horn in the middle. The flag’s green background represents the fields of England, and its white hoof and horn symbolise the animals. The morning rituals also include a democratic meeting, at which the animals debate and establish new policies and rules for the farm. At the meetings, Snowball and Napoleon always voice the loudest opinions, though their ideas are always different.

Snowball decides to set several committees which include:

• Cleaning the cows tails
• educating the rats and the rabbits

Most of the committees she set up failed to have any success but the education of literacy and writing obtained something the positive. By the end of the summer all of the farm animals knew how to read and write to some extent which was useful for the animals so that they could communicate in silence and read what was going on in newspapers.

Napoleon takes no interest in Snowball’s committees. When the dogs Jessie and Bluebell each give birth to puppies, he takes the puppies into his own care, saying that the training of the young should take priority over adult education. He raises the puppies in a loft above the harness room, out of sight of the rest of Animal Farm. Around this time, the animals discover, to their outrage, that the pigs have been taking all of the milk and apples for themselves. The pigs try and explain that apples and milk help them concentrate, and since they are doing all the brainy work they need those foods. In the end they finally manage to convince the other farm animals.