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Language Use

"It was a bitter winter. The stormy weather was followed by sleet and snow, and then by a hard frost which did not break till well into February."

The author put a lot of emphasis on the first sentence making it very short but powerful. This makes the paragraph have great sentence flow, and also a lot of tension. However, if the order of the two sentences were changed, "The stormy weather was followed by sleet and snow, and then by a hard frost which did not break till well into February. It was a bitter winter." like this, the emphasis could have been stronger. Now, the reader can get a great impression on how horrible of a condition the animals had to go through.

Minae Kwon

Response (Austin Yoo)

Minae brought up a great point about how the author could have switched the order to make it more emphasized. I think that the author wrote it the way he did to make every thing look good. We know from history that people tried to make Stalin look good. The author wanted to make the life condition in Animal Farm look not as bad as they actually were.