Chapter 4

• “The gun would be fired twice a year, once on October the twelfth, the anniversary of the Battle of the Cowshed, and once on Midsummer Day, the anniversary of the Rebellion.”
• “Boxer, the most terrifying spectacle of all, reared up on his hind legs and struck out with his great iron-shod hoofs.”
• “The animals decided unanimously to create a military decoration, ‘Animal Hero, First Class.’”
• “A sheep dropped dead. Napoleon gave her a solemn funeral.”
• “Without halting for an instant, Snowball flung his fifteen stone against Jones’s legs.”
• “The humans did not go unscathed either.”
• “Every animal was at his post.”
• “This was just what Snowball had intended.”
• “Snowball, who had studied an old book of Julius Caesar’s campaigns… gave his orders quickly.”
• They were gored, kicked, bitten, trampled on.
• snowball - ‘was in charge of the defensive operations‘ and ‘gave his orders quickl
• Boxer‘s kindness shown by concern for boy.

  Snowball dismisses Boxer’s ‘sentimentality’ saying ‘ the only good human being is a dead one’

  boxes feelings contrast when Napoleon use of violence later
• snowball at the head of them, rushed forward.
• snowball exist foreshadowed when he studies “an old book of Julius Caesar campaigns”, since Caesar, like snowball, was betrayed by his allies. Or include subtle historical references like this to suggest that violent power struggles have been common throughout history. For example, Napoleon’s name reminds the reader of the famous general Napoleon Bonaparte who seize power in France.
• “ these two disagreed at every point what disagreement was possible “