Symbolism and Allegory Unit Reflection

Over the past two weeks, we studies symbolism and allegory. As we conclude our unit, I have learned what allegory and symbolism mean. For allegory we read the story called “ Animal Farm” and we also did a graphic organizer of all the character in the story. My favorite assignment we did for allegory was the blogspot about kids at SPA starting a revolution. For symbolism we read the story “Through the Tunnel”. My favorite assigment was the Through the Tunnel” Foster Youth Initiation paragraph because it talks about foster youth and their experience going thorugh the system. After learning about symbolism and allegory I have learned that things can have many different meaning.

Animal Farm Graphic Organizer

“Animal Farm” Character’s Symbolic Meaning Paragraph

In the story “Animal Farm” by George In the story “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, the character Snowball represents initiative in the story. An example that shows this is when Snowball thinks about the idea of the windmill. In the story Snowball studies architecture and he is the one who came up with the idea of the windmill to better the farm. When Snowball starts the building of the windmill this also shows that he takes initiative to start something to better the Revolution the animlas started. People who are wise and intelligent use their techniques to help better something for themselves or for others as well.

Animal Farm Revolution at SPA

If the students of SPA had a revolution and took over the campus it would be extremely chaotic. If the students did take over SPA I would imagine this is how it would be.

All the students at SPA were displesed by all the rules that the staff were enforcing and creating, that they decided to start a revolution. It was on a Thursday and some of the students decided to meet to plan how it was going to happen. The day after, which was Friday all the students got out of school and everything was normal. All the sudents were acting normal so that the staff wouldn't suspect anything was going on. When everyone was at home for dinner hour one students stole the keys to the house. Then they opened the houseparents side and they tricked the staff into going in the room. When the staff was finally in the room they would close the door and lock it leaving the staff in there. Once all the staff were locked in the houseparents side the students were able to wander the campus and do as they please, until they got caught days later by the police.