{"id":1399969,"date":"2017-11-03T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1399969"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:31:00","slug":"blogging-animal-farm-the-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/blogging-animal-farm-the-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Animal Farm<\/em>: The Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome to the final installment of Blogging \u00a0Animal Farm<\/a>! \u00a0You can read the most recent installment here<\/a>, and \u00a0the entire series here<\/a>, if you dare.<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here we are, kittens, at the close of our CrAzY aDvEnTuRe. What a wild ride it’s been. Here’s what we’ve learned so far, I think: windmills are difficult to build. Sheep are the least literate farm animal. \u00a0 Socialism has laudable ideals, but the working class must continually unseat the ruling class<\/a> or else violent autocracies will suppress any real hope of freedom. Pigs are mean. And lastly, sugar cubes and ribbons = cute. Let’s go!<\/p>\n

!!!FLASH FORWARD!!!<\/p>\n

Years have passed (hate it when that happens). Most of our faves are dead now, except for Clover and Benjamin the Donkey, who are getting pretty old. However, no animals have ever gotten to retire. Nobody remembers Snowball, or the revolution, and only a few remember Boxer. Napoleon and Squealer have both grown up to be pretty, um, hefty.<\/p>\n

Sometimes animals are brought in from other farms, but they generally aren’t the sharpest tools in the box. The windmill has been finished, but it’s used to mill corn (which = $$$), instead of used to heat stalls or make the animals lives easier. The many pigs and dogs on the farm are chubby and happy and never seem to do much work, even though Squealer, with a cheeseburger in each hoof, explains that they are actually really busy<\/em> writing things called ‘reports’ and ‘papers,” which they have to cover with lots of tiny words and then burn (we’ve all been there). The farm, overall, seems more prosperous than ever, but the animals on the farm live life the way it’s always been: they are generally hungry, they work a lot, in winter they’re cold, and in the summer there are flies.<\/p>\n

But most importantly\u2014they live on Animal Farm! The greatest farm to ever farm! The only one, anywhere, owned and operated by animals! Fresh, local, artisan, organic…FARM PARTY TIME!<\/p>\n