A week ago
in the place we all once knew as Manor
Farm, but that is now called Animal
Farm by its new owners, a battle in which two lives were lost was held.
This battle, we found out after sneaking into the farm, has been baptized as “The
Battle of the Cowshed” by the animals.
According
to what we were told the old owner and a group of companions attacked the farm
in an attempt to take it back, but thanks to Snowball’s, a pig’s, great ability
to create tactics in a short time they were defeated. Sadly, the life of a
brave sheep was lost, but it will be forever remembered.
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| Snowball directing the animals (representation of the battle) |
“The only
good human being is a dead one” said Snowball to us after we went to talk to
him disguised as animals. Since it was probably our only opportunity to talk to
him we decided to ask him all the questions we had in mind, the most important
one being how he learned such good war tactics. “Reading and studying books
left by the humans. As useless as they might be these days, their old
literature does help out a lot.” He also told us he mainly read Julius Caesar’s
books, to think we were once told that animals were not capable of intelligence
makes me think a lot about what we don’t know about all of these creatures.
With this
doubt in mind, we went to talk to animal expert Mr. Smith. We asked him what he
thought about this development (animals having intelligence) “There must be
some sort of radiation in that farm. I refuse to believe animals are capable of
such thoughts” was what he told us. After this he seemed to doubt his own words
and we were forced to leave.
We also
talked to a military general, Mr. Free, to ask him what was it about the animals’
strategy that made it work so well. “They got the right timing for their
movements, everyone did what they were supposed to be doing” He said that was
the secret to a good strategy: teamwork. In this occasion, the animals were
working as a team while the humans weren’t. “It’s only logical the animals won”
was his final statement.
We also had
a talk with Mr. Jones, but he refused to say much, maybe out of shame of having
lost his farm and a battle to animals. We asked him about teamwork and he said,
while looking sad, that it was something they were lacking “We just attacked
without planning. If we tried again with a better strategy we might win” After
this he didn’t say anymore and we were forced to leave the place he has to now
call home.
Image from: http://randommusings2010.blogspot.com/2012/07/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
1. This is great work. You have created a magazine-style news feature with heavy reliance on the personal testimony of the reporter, rather than presentation of the 'facts'. The structure of the piece complements the style of writing very well in this respect.
ReplyDeleteYour chosen interviewees are interesting choices and definitely contribute to your animal-friendly bias. Your headline is clear and effective, barring the unfortunate spelling error.
Overall, this is an entertaining and effective piece of work.
2. Image citation (Halas and Batchelor, 1954).