Chapter 6 (by Kyle)

This chapter talks mostly about how hard the animals work in their society. I was absolutely astounded when I read that the animals had to work sixty hour weeks during all seven days of the week. What's worse is that the animals were as willing as they were, and it was because the pigs were brainwashing everyone into thinking they need to work this hard for independence from the humans. A good example of this would be Boxer the horse because he works harder than everyone else, and longer than everyone else for that matter. I also find it hard to believe that the pigs were able to convince the animals that rules that were thought to be in existence were not ever in existence. For example, the pigs had originally said that no one was aloud to sleep in a bed, but the pigs managed to convince everyone that the rule was always that no one could sleep in a bed without sheets. The pigs are really breaking their own rule that all animals are to be treated equally, because with all of the laws evolving so that the pigs are favored over every other animal is breaking that very commandment that there society was originally built upon. Because they are destroying the foundation, there will be nothing for their society to even be built on in the end, so it will all end up collapsing. Like they mentioned in the preface and the introduction, this story will end not happily at all, and I'm beginning to see why that may be. Another thing I think may cause issues later on is the fact that the animals are beginning to interact with the humans in the outside world. They are desperate for money so they can get the supplies they need for the windmill project, and the only way they can get that money is through the humans, so they begin to have a human solicitor sell the chicken's eggs for money to go towards the Animal Farm. I think what may end up happening will be that the pigs will attempt to use most of the money to benefit themselves later on in the novel, which will cause a lot of issues. I am also interested to see what other instances there will be where the pigs will be able to convince the animals of something that isn't true, like how they told them that Snowball was the one who destroyed the windmill project, when in fact it was a storm that destroyed it. They did this so that they could be sure that all of their threats are eliminated.