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Originally Posted by DuffMan
just give the cliffs notes ok. I'm not going to read a book that will have no impact on my feelings about guns, so I can appease you.
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Mr. Jones' runs a farm but his exploitation of the workers via his own laziness and excess causes a pig, Old Major, to call for a rebellion of the animals to take back the farm. While successful, Old Major dies and the cause is taken up by two other pigs named Snowball and Napoleon. After the rebellion, the bourgeois pony leaves to a neighboring farm.
Seven Commandments are created (things with only two legs are the enemy, no animal shall wear clothes, sleep in a bed, drink alcohol etc.) with the last one being 'All animals are created equal.
Snowball is the progressive of the two pigs and most in line with Old Major's intentions. Charismatic and idealistic, he is however chased off the farm by Napoleon's dogs and Napoleon assumes control of Animal Farm.
Napoleon continues to use his dogs to purge the farm of his rivals while negotiating shady deals with other farmers as well as selling the dead workhorse to a meat factory (the horse having worked himself to death in the name of the farm). Eventually the pigs start to walk upright, sleep in beds and trade the farm's production for alcohol and decadence for themselves. Eventually the commandments are changed to read only "All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
So yeah...guns.