Chicken Farm vs Pig Farm: Problem Solving While animals can be given human characteristics, including problem-solving, both good and bad problem-solving is exhibited in both Animal Farm and Chicken Run, despite the plot being different because of the animals in both stories not knowing how to problem-solve correctly, the animals having a social hierarchy that prevents working together to problem-solve, and many times in both forcing the problem-solving onto one character. Problem-solving is an important skill, integral to survival. Though, there is such a thing as good problem-solving and bad problem-solving. There are major differences, but you can find both examples all around you. Some examples are found in the novel Animal Farm and the …show more content…
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a political satire about a farm that gets taken over by animals in an attempt to be equal. In the book, the animals have many instances of trying to solve problems that come up during the story. An instance of good problem-solving they do is at the beginning of the story when the animals all work together equally to get the same reward. Orwell states, “How they toiled and sweated to get the hay in! But their efforts were rewarded, for the harvest was an even bigger success than they had hoped” (45). This is an example of good problem-solving because, despite using tools meant for humans, they worked together to harvest the hay and ended up with a harvest that was better than they hoped. Even though it was work, it was …show more content…
An example of good problem-solving in the film is when the chickens work together to fly. They encourage each other despite their failure to even get off the ground because they believe they can do it. This is good problem-solving because working in a team means you have to work together, and encouragement is a good example of teamwork. An example of bad problem-solving is not digging a hole big enough during their first escape. Ginger, a chicken in the movie, is a smaller chicken compared to the others, and she knew that there were chickens bigger than her. Still, she dug a hole in the fence barely big enough for her. Why? She knew that there were bigger chickens. This is bad problem-solving because she didn't think it through entirely, and that ended with her being caught and their plans to escape being brought back to square