Animal Farm) Question 6

Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningfil? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.

I found the passage that is significant to me in the very last sentence of the story.

“There was the same hearty cheering as before, and the mugs were emptied to the dregs. But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? …Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three……Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

This is the passage that mostly shows the purpose of writing this book. The purpose of writing, he tried to show our human nature by putting animals as the characters instead of human. In fact, after I read this quote, I could get the purpose of writing of the book. He directly gave us clue pigs and human looked similar. Animals described in the book displayed human ourselves and vice versa. Also in this passage, these pigs or humans are laughing and cheering, and shouting. The figures illustrated here are violent, but kind of friendly.
This passage is visual. I can imagine the whole scene obviously in my brain.

The one thing I don’t understand in this quote is when the author talks about number of chins. What does that mean…? Or is it just description of facial expression?