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CHAPTER 1
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P. 6 Old Mayor's Meeting
The old mayor has a dream and summons all of the animals to a meeting in which he shares his ideas of rebelling. They end the meeting with a song called "Beasts of England". -
P. 14 Mr. Jones wakes up
When Jones hears the singing, he wakes up from his sleep and shoots into the night. This scares everyone and ends the meeting.
"The uproar awoke Mr. Jones, who sprang out of bed, […] He siezed the gun which always stood in the corner of his bedroom and let fly a charge of 6 shots into the darkness". -
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CHAPTER 2
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P. 19 The animals rebel
After not being fed for days, the animals enter the house and rebel against Mr.Jones. They win and the farm is theirs. -
P. 24 Seven Commandments
The pigs establish the 7 commandments. They write them on a wall. -
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CHAPTER 3
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P. 32 Pigs begin lessons
The pigs try to teach animals how to read and write but most of them are too dumb to actually learn anything. Snowball opens "Animal Committees".
"None of the other animals in the farm could get further than letter A". -
P. 36 Milk and Apples discussion
The animals discover that the milk was taken by the pigs. Squaler persuades the animals by saying that Mr. Jones will return if they don't keep the food to themselves. -
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CHAPTER 4
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P. 39 Animalism Spread
The news of Animal Farm spread through neighboring farms and farmers become frightened. Some of these farmers make up fake rumors about the animals being evil. -
P. 40 Jones + Co. attack
Mr. Jones and some farmers attack the animal farm in hopes to getting it back but fail and are beaten. A sheep dies in the prosses and Boxer almost killed a farmer.