Hausaufgabenseite

Chapter One: Summary

As the story opens on Mr. Jones's farm, the farm animals are preparing to
meet after Mr. Jones goes to sleep, to hear the words that the old and
well-respected pig, Old Major, wants to say to them. The animals gather
around as Old Major tells them that he had a dream the previous night and
senses that he will not live much longer. As the animals prepare for his speech,
the narrator identifies several of the animals which will become more
important in the story: the cart-horses Boxer and Clover, the old donkey
Benjamin, and Mollie the pretty mare. Before he dies, he wants to tell the
animals what he has observed and learned in his twelve years. Old Major
goes on to say that animals in England are cruelly kept in slavery by man, who
steals the animals' labor and is "the only creature that consumes without
producing". He describes his vision of an England in which animals are free
and live in

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