Three days had passed since Old Major's revelation, and he died peacefully in his sleep. During the next three months there was much secret activity. Major's speech had given to the more intellegent animals on the farm a completely new outlook on life. They didn't know when the rebellion would take place, but they saw clearly that it was their duty to prepare for it. The work of organizing and teaching the others fell upon the pigs, who were recognized as being the cleverest of the animals. Pre-eminent among the pigs were two young boars named Napoleon and Snowball, whom Jones was breeding for sale.These pigs, along with the help of another pig, young Squealer (who had a talent for arguing, it was said he could talk black into white.), had elaborated on Major's teachings, to which they gave the name Animalism.
Now, as it turned out, the Rebellion was achieved much earlier and more easily than expected. On Midsummer's Eve, Jones went into Willingdon and got drunk at the Red Lion. When he returned, he immediately went to sleep. At last they couldn't stand it anymore, and one of the cows broke into the store shed adn the animals proceeded to help themselves.
Jones and his men ran to the shed, whips in hand, and started to lash out at the animals. The men suddenly found themselves being kicked and butted from all sides. Within seconds, Jones and his men were in full flight down the road that led to the gate, the animals persuing triumphantly.
The animals of Manor Farm rejoiced in their new-found freedom by promptly destroying any and all things human: the whips, the bits the harnesses, everything. As monument to their succes, they changed the sign at the road so that where it once read MANOR FARM, it now said ANIMAL FARM.
The pigs had secretly, over the past three months, taught themselves to read and write. They divulged this fact to the rest of the farm.
The pigs soon informed their fellow animals that they had condenced the beliefs of Animalism to Seven Commandments, which were scrawled onto the wall of the barn.
The Seven Commandments:
1.Whatever goes upon two logs is enemy.
2.Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3.No animal shall wear clothes.
4.No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5.No animal shall drink alchohol.
6.No animal shall kill any other animal.
7.All animals are equal.
Then, throwing down the paintbrush, Snowball cried "Now, comrades, to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honour to harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could."

Written By Tyler Wolf

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