What Lies Ahead (Incomplete)

Learning About Thinking
When you make predictions, you look into the future and speculate about what might happen. Reliable predictions may be based on facts you know to be true, inferences made from facts, past experience, or any combination of these. For example, while reading Chapter 5, you may have made a prediction about Mollie based on certain facts and inferences you could make from the facts.

First consider the facts. At the end of Chapter 4, Mollie runs to her stall to hide from the noise and tumult of the Battle of the Cowshed. From this you could infer that she will not want to stay at Animal Farm under adverse conditions. At the beginning of Chapter 5, Clover accuses Mollie of making contact with one of Pilkington's men. Mollie denies this, but later a lump of sugar and ribbons of various colors are found hidden in her stall. From this information, you could infer that she has contacted the humans and accepted their gifts despite her protests to the contrary. When Mollie disappears and is later found in service of the humans, you might feel that you had predicted this outcome based on the facts you had and the inferences you could draw from them.

Thinking About the Novel
Sometimes authors give readers hint about what might happen later in a book.
A. Consider these statements from Animal Farm and speculate about what you could predict for the future based upon the statements and the situations surrounding them.

1. Narrator about Napoleon's teaching of the animals: "He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating 'Four legs good, two legs bad' both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this."

By this quote the author meant that the pigs were able to better manipulate the sheep. He was able to convince them that they must stay away from human like actions, yet the pigs were entitled to act like humans.

A. In chapter five the author implied that Molly wasn't happy at the farm. He first implied it at the ending of chapter 4, when Molly hid in her stall until the war had ended. He also made it seemed that Molly was a traitor by having Clover confront Molly, about having contacts with a human. Later on ribbons and sugar canes are discovered in Molly stall. Then later on Molly disappeared, and was found at a farm wearing ribbons.

B. The sheep interpreted the chant "Four legs good, two legs bad" as a way to say that any living thing that had two legs were bad. They referred it to humans. And since most animals had four legs, they referred to them as good.

A. In chapter five george orwell gives hints as to what will happen in the future , he first leads us to the fact that mollie was not happy in the farm with all the war and fighting going on. There was a suggestion of this when she decide to hide in her stall while every one is at war. Also because the other and she herself believed she was a traitor for talking to humans.

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2 legs bad because we the people are destroying the earth little by little. in other hands animals work for us, they do some of our work. They're not destroying the earth like humans do.

" 4 legs good 2 legs bad "





- This means that the animals believe that humans were the cause of all of there problems , and the pigs dwelled so much on it that they led the other animals to also live by that statement.