Frye And Twelve Foot Ceiling, By Dorothy Thompson

Literacy is a skill that everyone has access to at a young age. You are required to go to school though kindergarten to secondary school. The lack and deprivation of literacy are evident thought George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Once the animals on Mayor Manor Farm revolted against Mr. Jones’ and his wife, the pigs took it upon themselves to learn and teach the other animals literacy. Without literacy being available to the general public, it would reduce the number of people working only leaving a certain stereotype left for the intellectual jobs as no one else was given that opportunity. With the help of the interview, Frye and Twelve Foot Ceiling by Dorothy Thompson, you can see the detrition of literacy given and available to the animals.

They intergrade it into the education system and emphasize it to the point where majority of the student attending school would want to halt their education and serve their country. During the interview of the Frye it was stated that: “…They must engage in a fight to help students confront and reject the verbal formulas and stock responses…. It is a fight against literacy…” (Frye, 1). The teachers are attempting to resolve conflicts amongst students in order to make the focus on their education while the students are making assumptions and their concepts are misguided leading them to pay not much attention to the teachers, as they should be leading them to drop out of school at an early age and making their future as a Blue Collared worker. In Animal Farm Boxer would have been consider to be a Blue Collard worker since his education was limited and he mainly focused on helping the farm and working hard, one of his mottos was that “I will work harder!” (Orwell, 49). Even though the Blue Collared workers do not have the same level education as others they are still very important to society and help keep the system running. Without them it would be a struggle to get things completed, just like if Boxer was not there then the building of the Windmill would have been more tedious and more tiresome for the other animals as in Animal Farm Boxer had carried majority of the weight in order to construct the stricter