I remember how exciting it was to hear the bell go off on the last day of school. It was summer vacation, but it had some unexpected results. The summer, was really boring, I had nothing to do. Also, I had to do a lot of chores and I had to review what I learned that year. As a result I concluded that maybe summer vacation wasn’t that good. George Orwell’s Animal Farm showed a lot of cause and effect relationships. Some causes were: the windmill, Napoleon, and the 7 commandments and the effects of there changed life for the animals on the farm.

      This book had a lot of cause and effect relationships and a significant one was the Seven Commandments. The Seven Commandments were the whole farm’s rules. One of the biggest effects was that it stated “no animal should drink alcohol or sleep on a bed”; alcohol was one of the causes of the Rebellion. Another important commandment was that “no animal should kill another animal”. Although these two commandments are important, I think the commandment that said “all the animals are equal” is the most important.

      The second one cause and effect relationship was the windmill. Building the windmill made the farm poor, they had less food to eat and they had to work harder. Everyone started to get unhappy after long, hot, hard working days.

      The third cause and effect relationship was Napoleon. Napoleon played a big part in this novel. He was the leader of the farm. He forced the animals work on the windmill, while he only gave a little food to them. After Snowball left, he started to become more and more thirsty for power, and he became a dictator. Because of that, no one could say anything bad about him, or else they would be punished or get slaughtered. Napoleon started to lead the pigs into being humans, especially the pigs. In the end, Napoleon and pigs were no different from the humans.

      In conclusion, I think the most effective cause and effect relationship was Napoleon. Napoleon played an important role; he revised the seven commandments, he was in charge of the windmill, and did lots of changes that would change the farm forever, such as slaughtering animals that disagreed with him. But the whole thing started because of Old Major’s dream and his death. I think Orwell’s message was to tell us that power is a scary thing. Power can get out of control. I agree with him. This book showed a big example of it.