Animal Farm

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A classic text. This section involves Boxer, the indefatigable horse and Squealer, the politico, right hand pig of Napoleon the animals leader. I enjoyed reading it.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

British (England - Cockney, Estuary, East End) British (England - Yorkshire & Humber) British (General)

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as they approached the farm, Squealer, who had unaccountably bean absent during the fighting, came skipping toward them, risking his tail and beaming with satisfaction. And the animals heard from the direction of the farm buildings, the solemn booming of a gun. What is that gun firing for? Said Boxer. Just celebrate our victory, cried squealer. What victory? Said Boxer. His knees were bleeding. He had lost a shoe and split his hoof and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in his hind leg. What victory, comrade, have we not driven the enemy off our soil? The sacred soil of animal Farm. But they have destroyed the windmill and we had worked on it for two years. What matter? We will build another windmill. We will build six windmills if we feel like it. You do not appreciate, comrade. The mighty thing that we have done the enemy was an occupation of this very ground that we stand upon. And now, thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, we have won every inch of it back again. Then we have won back what we had before, said Boxer. That is our victory, said Squealer. They limped into the yad, the pellets under the skin of boxers, Legs smarted painfully, he saw ahead of him the heavy labour of rebuilding the windmill from the foundations and already in imagination. He braced himself for the task, but for the first time it occurred to him that he was 11 years old and that perhaps his great muscles were not quite what they had once bean.