ANIMAL FARM CHAPTER 9

What’s the Reader’s Job?
Orwell expects that you’ll fill in
essential information that the
animals miss; he assumes that you’ll
make inferences. It’s an unwritten
partnership between writer and
reader. Even though the animals don’t
seem to know what is being done to
them, you’re able to understand.
Inference - (n): In logic, the
process of making conclusions
from premises known or
assumed to be true.





Instructions: Read the following passages from Chapter 9

In your notebook, explain the inferences and insights you can make that the characters can’t.


A. Meanwhile life was hard. The winter was as cold as the last one had been, and food was
even shorter. Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and dogs. A too
rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of
Animalism.


B. In April, Animal Farm was proclaimed a Republic, and it became necessary to elect a
President. There was only one candidate, Napoleon, who was elected unanimously. On
the same day it was given out that fresh documents had been discovered which revealed
further details about Snowball’s complicity with Jones. It now appeared that Snowball had
not, as the animals had previously imagined, merely attempted to lose the Battle of the
Cowshed by means of a stratagem, but had been openly fighting on Jones’ side.

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