Symbolism and Allegory Unit Reflection

I learned, within a couple of weeks, how symbolism can be a meaningful object. For example, a wedding ring can represent the vows between married couples. The way I learned symbolism is by reading "Through the Tunnel". I also learned about allegory by reading "Notes in a Bottle". My favorite assignment is the blog post about Foster Youth Initiation because I literally wrote about my initiation. I put my all in my work. At first, I didn’t know very much about allegory, but with a little learning I got the point. I gained more knowledge about literature and all of the puzzles in it.

Animal Farm to the Real World

In the story "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, the war between the animals and the humans has allegorical meaning. For example, when the animals attacked Mr. Jones when he walked in the barn. It represents the time when the U.S. went to war with Britain to earn their freedom. The animals wanted to get rid of the humans and run the farm their way. The U.S. wanted to depart from British rule, so they fought to get their independence. The U.S. also went with a constitutional government than to be governed by monarchy. Additionally, when the animals started to say, "Two legs bad, four legs good"as a way to indicate that they run the farm. That can represent the segregation in South Carolina the white folks and the black folks. The animals are basically saying that having four legs is better than having two, also being an animal is better than being human beings. Same thing with segregation in South Carolina, white people thought that they were better than the colored people. Even though most stories about animals are written for children, they can have similarity events that happened in our world, but just stated in a different way.