Question+Discussion

2. Chapter 8: Despite changing conditions on the farm, why do the animals continue to believe everything the pigs tell them—about Napoleon, Snowball, food shortages, and their current lives?

Part II: Discuss real-life situations in which a person or group might believe one thing even though the evidence reveals something different.

-the animals on the farm continue to listen to the pigs, since they are the ones who come up with clever ideas to improve the conditions of the animal farm. Napoleon and snowball are the ones who are always the one who argues to achieve hat they want. Since all the other animals don’t know how to deal with the food shortages and other different problems on the farm, they decide to rely on the one who actually can organize and want to lead the ideas of their own. A real life situation in which a person or group might believe one thing even though the evidence reveals something different, is when students learn from teachers. Students don’t know much about information the teachers teach them. They wouldn’t know if the teacher is teaching the right information or not. They would just listen to whatever the teacher tells them to do even though that particular teacher is an inexperienced one. Another example is, when people don’t have anyone to rely on, and they have no idea what to do, they would rely on anyone who are able to lead people in trouble, and unite them. (MichelleO)

-to add on to this discussion, the animals started to respect and realize that the pigs were clever in their decisions after they went through a process called “brain-wash”. In the beginning, they were just innocent animals living in a “peaceful” world. However, as mr. jones was overthrown, the farm had been miserable about what they should do. Then it was the pigs that stood up and claimed that they were the smartest ones. When somebody is miserable and does not know what to do, they just follow orders from anyone that seems to have a nice solution. And so, the pigs were like a lifesaver for all the animals………….. (Hyun Sun Park)

They believe in what the pigs say because the pigs are smarter and more powerful than them. When there was a rebellion, the pigs were the first one who gained power and the first one that the other animals followed and met. This is similar to a law in nature. When an animal is born, the first creature that they see will be thought of their mother. -2Pac- (IAN)

In spite of the fact that there has been change on animal’s society, they seemed to be solely believing on what pigs, especially Napoleon and Squealer, had been saying ; it seemed to be due to the animals’ naïve characteristc. They had never gone to the procedure like a revolution back in the days. Indeed, it seemed to be their first time ever controlled by the creatures that they are not human, so they rely upon on the leaders, who proceeded most of the movements which led them to bring successful result on the revolution. Part ll: I think North Korean people would believe everything what I said if I were the officials of Kim Jung Il’s government or the high positioned officials in any part of their societies. By seeing the fact that they barely received information from other side of the world and mostly brainwashed by their regime, they seemed to be naïve. (MINJI K)….