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Snowball’s Diary from George Orwell’s Animal FarmOld Major died in his sleep today. He had known that his time wasnear. He gathered us all into the barn only 3 days previously andspoke openly of the wisdom he had gained over the years and of thestrange dream that he had. He spoke of how we are all comrades. Heasked what kind of life do we have? ‘Miserable, laborious and short.’We are given only so much to eat that will keep us breathing and giveus the strength to carry out a days work and no more. We are pushed tothe limits and when we are not capable of carrying out our duties weare slaughtered with hideous cruelty. Most animals do not know themeaning of happiness because they do not live beyond 1 year.
The life of an animal is misery and slavery. Remove man from the sceneand the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. Man islord of all the animals, he makes them work, gives food enough toprevent us from starving and keeps the rest for himself. He is veryselfish he is our enemy.
He spoke of Rebellion and how we must fight when the time came forfuture generations to carry on the struggle until it is victorious.Little did we know the Rebellion was going to start so soon.
11th March
Napoleon and I decided to hold meetings during the, week to discussand prepare for the Rebellion if it was to happen. Today I was talkingto my comrades about how we could make the farm better for us to liveand work on a lot easier because the hours we work on are too long andnot all of us can use the equipment that is there so machines would bemuch more efficient, and of course we would have to find a way ofadapting to use the machinery.
3rd June
Mr Jones no longer has an interest in the farmland or its animals and