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Classwork for Friday, 3/9 and Tuesday 3/13
Write a confessional, in the style of a reality TV show, for one character from Animal Farm. Only refer to events that take place between chapters I and VII.
Requirements
- You must refer to at least two things the character said or did in the book up to Chapter VII. (Like a concrete detail)
- The character must tell us why he or she did or said these things (like a commentary, because it is more of an interpretation than a fact)
- The character must speak in a way appropriate to the personality that has been described (unless of course he/she has been faking an on-air personality and saves his/her real self for the confessional)
- Have fun with it – this is a creative writing assignment.
3 comments:
Jason Yanakis
03/08/07
English 9
Confessional; Boxer
It’s been about a year since we rebelled and captured the farm. I don’t know, even though I work hard, I still feel something’s missing. No matter how hard I work, that missing piece just seems to never come back. I think the pigs are always right but the pigs do overwork us. I haven’t ever verbalized this but I think they’re really full of themselves. The pigs are so egotistic and pompous, they take all the milk and apples for themselves, that’s the best food on the farm. “Every animal is equal,” is nonsense! If all animals were equal we would get milk and apples! What ever happened to those puppies that Napoleon took under his supervision? He isn’t the puppies’ parent! I hope they’re all right. Even though I say I’ll just work harder, I’m frankly starting to get fed up with these suspicious pigs. And frankly I’m tired of slaving my haunches off again. I thought that’s why we rebelled, so that we didn’t have to work so hard.
But then again Mr. Jones overworked us too and he underfed us. I guess the pigs are a step up. Well what do I know? I barely know a couple letters of the alphabet! I guess I’ll just work harder regardless of my master. [sigh]
L.Shtern
3-08-07
“Animal Farm” Confessional
Mr. Pilkingkton: Manor Farm is a nuthouse, and I don’t see why Mr. Jones doesn’t just up and kick the animals out.
Mr. Frederick: Because he’s a bloody drunk, that’s why! If that had been my farm, those cursed animals never would have kicked me out.
Mr. Pilkington: Well then, you have a point, Jones does drink a bit too much, but personally Foxwood would have been harder…
Mr. Frederick: Ha! You? You couldn’t have held that ramshackle mudhole you call a farm for two seconds, even against a bunch of pigs.
Mr. Pilkington: Pigs have sharp trotters, they’re fast, and they’re heavy. The horses are huge, strong, and have big hooves. Chickens have sharp beaks. So do geese, and they’re strong. Sheep aren’t so bad, but there are so many…
Mr. Frederick: Just as I thought! You’re a sniveling coward, and…
Mr. Pilkington: Well, I didn’t see you running to help Jones. Hiding in that pokey little Pinchfield of yours, you and all those all those victims of your miserliness you call…
Mr. Frederick: So I’m a miser? Well, layabout, what you call “miserliness”, I call business sense and plain old common sense! And for your information, I wasn’t “hiding”, I was making a defensive maneuver.
Mr. Pilkington: I’m no layabout, and that wasn’t a “defensive maneuver”! That was retreating, running and hiding.
Mr. Frederick: What?!
*The remainder of the confessional consists of yelling, insults, and very little logical speech. END *
Here's my second conffesional it is for benjamin:
Jason Yanakis
03-15-07
English Confessional #2; Benjamin
As you’ve probably seen by my demeanor, I don’t really care for life one way or the other. I neither hold on nor let go. I’m a donkey. I’ll live long just like all the other donkeys.
I have been puzzled of late though. I usually just trudge along, regardless of circumstances. But it’s getting horrendous! Even I can’t process some of the stuff that’s being done to us. Our rations are cut nearly every chance those pigs get. We had better rations in Jones’ time.
The worst part is that these pigs are turning into people. I mean they’ve changed the commandments, they’ve got their guard dogs, and they walk on their hind legs!
You know donkeys live long, and this here donkey has seen some pretty weird stuff but those pigs and their communist shenanigans really top the list. They slaughtered animals for having supposedly helped Snowball. He wasn’t all that bad!
Now this Napoleon fella is being really fishy, sneaky and suspicious, and I smell something is up. I know it ain’t good.
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