The Fianl Chapter

 NOTE: Clover is confused about her gender.

Napoleon went to back to the farm with the rest of the pigs, or the ones that were pigs at some point in their lives after the card game. Napoleon was still furious because Mr. Pilkington had cheated according to him. All the animals that were watching the game ran to back to the farm before Napoleon or one of the pigs came out of there and saw them. Clover could not keep it quiet though; he ran into a fence, broke it and made a lot of noise.

Clover was lying on the ground when Napoleon came out. He did not have any time to get up and run in the farm, but he also thought it would have not been right just to run away and leave the fence broken without taking responsibility for breaking it. Clover had never seen Napoleon looking so angry before. Napoleon screamed, “Clover! Why were you outside?”

“I was watching the game…” said Clover scared.

The rest of the animals made it to the farm without getting caught. They were looking at Clover and Napoleon talking through the holes in the wooden walls of the barn. They thought Napoleon was going to send Clover away from the farm and never come back.

“Well, go back inside and tomorrow you will fix this fence and you will not get any food and water for breaking it!” were Napoleon’s last words that day. He walked around the farm and then into the house. The pigs followed him in and closed the door.

The next morning the pigs came out of the house, except for Napoleon. They called all the animals of the farm and told them they needed to tell them something important. Once all the animals were gathered together in the barn, the pigs asked them to be quiet. Squealer started talking and said, “We have something important to tell you. Napoleon has decided that we will not continue having human connections. He recently had problems with them and he thinks we should just keep our distance and the farm away from them. They are as you all know dangerous.”

The news was such a surprise to all the animals that they were happy.

“Since Napoleon made that decision, he now has full power over what goes on here. The humans were a great advantage to us, and now that they will be gone, Napoleon wants you working much harder than you usually do. You will be assigned more jobs to do and if you refuse to do something, you will be punished. Napoleon will keep giving all of you orders, and we will keep supervising your work. If you do something wrong, there will be big consequences. You are not allowed to go out of the farm and you cannot talk to any other animal out of this farm. Oh! And Napoleon is sick. He said he does not feel good and he will probably stay in the house for a few more days resting “ said Squealer.

After Squealer said that, all the animals looked angry. They knew it was better not to argue so they did what they were told and when they were released, they went straight to do their jobs. Clover obeyed and fixed the fence as Napoleon ordered him.

That night, Clover and Benjamin started talking about what they should do while everyone else was asleep. They both agreed that a rebellion against Napoleon and the pigs was much easier than before since they didn’t have human help anymore. They talked all night about what they’d do and came up with a plan. The next morning they spread the news about the plan and by the evening all the animals knew that there was a plan and that they all had to be up at midnight to hear Clover and Benjamin tell them the plan.

They all waited until the lights of the house were off to be sure that the Pigs and Napoleon were sleeping. Clover began, “Thank you for being here tonight, my comrades. As we all know, Napoleon is taking advantage of his power and taking advantage of us as well. We have to stand up to him and the pigs, just like most of our ancestors rose to overthrow the humans of the farm. We are all brave and strong, and we cannot let this keep happening. We are all animals, therefore we are all equal. Napoleon does not have the right to think he is better than any of us. My plan, my comrades is to get rid of Napoleon and the pigs and to establish justice and equality. We cannot change the pigs; they are always going to be the way they are. What I suggest is for us to burn the house tomorrow night with Napoleon and the pigs in it. That is the only solution we have.”

“I agree with Clover and I think we need to do this before things get out of control.” Said Benjamin.

There was a moment of silence, until Benjamin asked, “so who is with us?”

Moses was the first to answer, “I am”.

Then one after another started answering, “me too”, “I am”, “I am”, “I am too” until everyone said yes.

“Alright comrades, tomorrow we will prepare everything for our plan. We will work as we normally do, but we will be taking dried grass and leafs and we will secretly put them around the house without making it obvious. We will need you, Moses to fly in the house through the chimney and get the matches. Maybe you or someone else can light them. Clover, I will need you to make sure the doors cannot be opened, you are strong, so you and with the help of other can move bales of hay to the possible exists. Is everyone understood?” said Benjamin. They all nodded.

“Thank you for your time comrades, this is and will be for our own good.” Then they all went to sleep.

The following morning, they all started working as usual and putting the dried grass around the house. Neither the pigs nor Napoleon noticed as the animals placed grass around the house. It was finally time to go to sleep and they patiently waited for the lights of the house to be off. They waited about an hour after the lights went off to make sure they were asleep. Then all the animals quietly got out of the barn and starting helping move bales of hay and setting them in front of doors, and any kind of exit. The house was surrounded by grass and dried leafs. Moses, with its beak held a math and lighted it and dropped it on the grass. Fire started. Moses did the same thing all around the house. The fire started getting big. The house was burning and the sky looked black from all the fire smoke. The animals moved away from the fire but still in the farm watching as the house was burned down and everything inside it being destroyed.

The fire continued until the morning, and luckily it did not move from the house to the farm. About an hour after the sun came out, the farmers from other farms close by started coming and trying to stop the fire with buckets of water and hoses. They managed to stop it before it got dark. It didn’t seem like they found anything in the house. That afternoon, the farmers moved the animals to their own farms. Animal farm was completely empty and no one controlled it anymore. The house was totally destroyed, and that gave the farm a feeling of peace, which was of course because there was no one there.

At the end, it was like nothing happened because the humans took the animals over again. Animals then realized that they could never be free. Another attempt on rebelling would be in vein. Clover knew that he could not do anything else to try to be free, so all he and the other animals did was work and do as the humans said for the rest of their lives.