During this chapter Mr.Jones starts off by complaining about the mishaps and unfortunate events that have happened to him over the past year. He explains that his animals took a rebellious turn against him -he did deserve it- and that he has lost everything. Two other farmers who hear this hope that this "misfortune" happens to them as well but eventually the pigeons spread among the animals from the other farms the "Beasts of England" song and the animals rebel. Mr.Jones and some men then decide to march on Animal Farm to try and re-capture it but since Snowball is prepared she devises a tactic to defeat them which works but gets one of the sheep killed in the process. But Boxer has in turn taken the life a little boy on the human side and wants to grieve about it but can't because Snowball explains that he is a filthy human.
Opinion:
I believe that this chapter marks an important event in the book as there is the spread of the animals "empire" which is growing, and that animals defeat the humans once again. I also think that the spread of this animal race is referral to other colonial empires long ago who took over colonies (in this case the animals take over the farm) and then later on expanding it (gathering more animals from the other farms). On top of all this I think that the animals don't understand what their fighting for and what they think their fighting for as these are two very different concepts. The animals think that they are keeping the farm from danger and defending it but in fact they do not know why they are defending it so vigorously from the humans, perhaps just to keep their freedom.
Try and finish this soon! (It's very short.) Have you looked for political interpretations? It's interesting that you compare the animals' growing 'empire' with colonialism, because you might say that's what the Soviet Union eventually became.
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