Animal Farm Project (Poem)...

Power Corrupts

Animal Farms demise
resides on one animal shoulders,
he is on all fours
unlike Stalin
but together inside is just a black hole.
Power Corrupts

This one pig,
Napoleon,
might blame all the plights on Snowball,
but truly this is just an excuse for all his mischievous tyrant plans
Power Corrupts

His secret police
chased Snowball out,
banned from the farm.
This left the animals fate in his hands.
Power Corrupts

He acted as part of the team
all for the greater good,
but enough was enough.
And so the downfall began.
Power Corrupts

He invokes fear in all
confessions made;
slaughtered….one by one.
A heap of bodies reminding them.
Power Corrupts

The animals start to wonder,
Beasts of England;
Is this what we wanted?
Power Corrupts

Breaking all commandments,
one final sin;
standing up right.
The lines blurring
between the races.
Humans,
pigs,
what’s the difference?
Power Corrupts

Animal Farm Project
Throughout the novel, Animal Farm, a major theme is power corrupts. This means when everyone is not equal, there is always a power struggle, and in this case it ended in a dictatorship. As the pigs rise to power, Napoleon manipulates the animals into what he wants them to believe. For instance changing the original seven commandments, and then abolishing them so that there was just a single one. “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.” In the poem I wrote for the project I summarize main events to emphasize that when Napoleons takes over, he corrupts Animal Farm, and the ideals they had for themselves at the beginning of the rebellion. As a result of the fear that Napoleon spread through the farm, he could control everyone’s thoughts and actions. The first act was banning Snowball, following that were little things like the pigs breaking the commandment because they thought they were more equal than the rest. Also getting Squealer to convince the animals that whatever they remember was wrong and that Napoleon was right. Furthermore, when the dogs brutally murder some of the animals because they confessed to being in contact with Snowball. As the corruption becomes worse the animals start to realize this is not what they wanted when they thought of overpowering the humans and living a happier and better life. At the end we see the final result of what the corruption has done, the pigs walk on two feet and consider themselves equal with the humans.

Poetry Out Loud Peformances...

Amanda Fernandez recited " Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward". Her physical presense was strong and her voice and articulation were clear. Her dramatiaztion was perfect because she had great body language and nice facial expressions. I would say it was pretty difficult because of the length but the language was fairly easy. You could tell she understood the poem from the way she told the story.

I could understand the poem because of how she acted when reciting. At the end she says "hand you off..." i can tell that she had to give up her child. The poem describes the happiness that the mother feels with her child and the situation shes in because the father left.