The book animal farm was based on when Russia was communist and stallions rise to power in the soviet union the book has the farmer who was the power and then the animals decided that they would revolt against the farmer and take the farm over for themselves. The farm was run by snowball and his plan was like by mostly by all the animals on the farm and then snowball and napoleon started to fight about everything and finally napoleon kicked snowball out of the farm with his guard dogs. At the start of the book the animals thought that they were all in power but soon after the pigs decided that they would step over the other animals and make them lower then dirt and the pigs would build them selves up and not work and be just like the humans.
At the end of the book the pigs end up just like the humans and use the other animals just like the humans did and the pigs end up playing card with the humans and the other animals can not tell the difference between the humans and the pigs.
The animals worked harder then the pigs ever did but the pigs still thought that they were the top of the food chain even though the pigs just sat around and did nothing, the horse Boxer did the most work out of everyone and in the end he when and got sold to the glue factory because the pigs didn't need him around anymore and they thought that he was all used up so they sold him so they could have money for other things. The pigs ended up ling to all of the animals so that the pigs could get what they wanted like sleeping in the house instead of the barn and when the rules said they couldn't the pigs went and changed them. The pigs also change the rules that said that no animals could drink alcohol so they went and changed the rules so that they could.
The conflict theory explains why the animals started the "war" with the humans because they didn't want to work for the farmer anymore but the pigs made everything worse then what it was because the pigs were just as bad or maybe worse then the farmer was because the farmer didn't make the animals build a windmill and he also didn't sell his best horse to the glue factory.
So the conflict theory involves the rich and poor classes and the functionalist theory involves the reward system.
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