He Got Game: Poem Analysis

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The excerpt from “He Got Game” relates to the animals complacent attitude as the commandments change and the way doing things on the farm changes for the worse by comparing the things they endure.
In stanza 1, line 2, Public Enemy states, “even murders excused/” one example that compares to this in Animal Farm is Boxer's death. Napoleon thinks of Boxer as an enemy because he can remember all of the past, including the commandments. When Boxer was taken away by the knackers all of the animals think that he is going to a vet but Napoleon and Squealer lie to them all. None of the animals try to do anything about Boxer's death because they thought the leaders were being honest with them. The animals feel as if trying to do something about this conflict would only make matters worse. …show more content…

In chapter 8 the text states, “But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was “No animal shall drink alcohol,”but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read:”No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.” This quote from the text reveals that the animals knew something was going on but didn’t try to fix or change

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