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= **__﻿ The Hens __**



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**__ ﻿Hens in Animal Farm __**

 * Hens were forced to surrender their eggs to Napoleon.
 * Hens destroy their eggs in rebellion to Napoleon.
 * When the Hens rebelled Napoleon cut off their food supply.
 * Nine of the Hens die.
 * All other Hens layed their eggs and surrendered them as they were told.

**__Kulaks__**

 * Kulaks are wealthy peasants that were known to own farms and livestock.
 * Kulaks would hire labour workers and lease out land.
 * Known to lend money, provide morgage, and were major figures in peasant villages.

__Collectivism and how it affects Kulaks__

 * Soviet Communism is bettter known as Collectivism.
 * Kulaks were forced to give up their privately owned farms to agriculture organizations.
 * When communism swept over the kulaks, the poor peasants had equal shares of land, status, and livestock that the kulaks had worked so hard to aquire.
 * Peasant farmworkers rebelled and were forced to starve to death.[[image:http://econc10.bu.edu/economic_systems/Economics/Economic_History/FSU/echist1.gif width="666" height="304"]]

__How Is This a Parallel__
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 * Napoleon told the Hens they were to give their eggs away to him.
 * The Hens rebelled and stated the eggs were rightfully theirs.
 * The Hens would go up on the highest perch and lay their eggs so they would drop and break in rebellion.
 * The Hens rebelled just like the kulaks did and Napoleon and Stalin both sentenced them to death by starvation.
 * Many kulaks died as well as in animal farm, nine hens died.

__Quotes__ == ==
 * "One Sunday morning Squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs." (pg. 55)
 * "They had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen." (pg. 55)
 * "They were just getting their clutches ready for their spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder." (pg. 55)
 * "For the first time since the expulsion of Jones, there was something resembling a rebellion." (pg. 55)
 * "Their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor." (pg. 55)
 * "He ordered the Hens rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death." (pg. 55)
 * "Nine hens died in the meantime" (pg. 55)
 * "Whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away." (pg. 55)

__**Citations**__ ==
 * __**kulak****. (2010). In //Encyclopædia Britannica//. Retrieved from Online: [|http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/324575/**kulak**]**__
 * **Orwell, George (1997). Animal Farm. United States of America: McDougal Literal.**