Animal Farm) Question 4

What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel makes you feel?

I don’t feel I found an accurate climax of the story, but I guess climax begins after Snowball is kicked out from the Animal Farm and some animals are executed because Napoleon made them to confess at the Battle of the Cowshed. The climax is in chapter 8, happens when the battle with Frederick taken place in the Animal Farm. At this moment, the opponent destroyed the windmill and animals were angry. So the animals attacked the opponent almost crazily. The nine dogs of Napoleon barked to the humans and these human ran away. Animals had won the victory. The Squealer said they are going to rebuild the windmill, he thought a matter of winning the fight was important than the windmill was damaged (I think it is because he didn’t work to build the windmill, he just gave orders. So he didn’t know how hard the animals worked to build the windmill for last year). However, the animals were exhausted and injured; some of them were died in the fighting. They were disappointed when they saw that windmill was destroyed. What I noticed in the climax is that the destruction of windmill represents the destruction of faith in this society. The whole story of novel doesn’t describe detail things, but I think the next chapter after the climax, the animal seemed to be reluctant to work for the farm and they ran a lack of food, money to rebuild the windmill. So I could see the animals lost the faith to finish the achievement.