In Animal Farm, lots of important events take place on a Sunday. Here are some examples:
- In Chapter Two, the Rebellion - in which the animals overthrow Mr. Jones - occurs on a Sunday evening.
- Once the Rebellion is complete, the animals allocate Sunday as a day of rest. They also have special meetings on a Sunday in which they discuss important issues and allocate work for the coming week. Later in the novel, these meetings are banned by Napoleon.
- In Chapter Five, at one of these Sunday meetings, Snowball is expelled from the farm by Napoleon and his guard dogs.
- Three Sundays later, Napoleon announces that the windmill will, in fact, be built.
- In Chapter Six, on a Sunday, Napoleon announces that the farm will start trading with humans.
- Every Sunday morning, Squealer reads out the weekly production figures for the farm. The figures always show an increase of "two hundred...three hundred...or five hundred percent"
- It is on Sunday that Napoleon makes a rare public appearance to give a speech in honour of Boxer who dies in Chapter Nine.
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