Benjamin (Animal Farm) Benjamin (Animal Farm) Benjamin is a donkey in George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm". He is also the oldest of all the animals (he is alive in the last scene of the novel). He is less straightforward than most characters in the novel, and a number of interpretations have been put forward to which social class he represents as regards to the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. ("Animal Farm" is an allegory for the evolution of Communism in Russia, with each animal representing a different social class, e.g. Boxer represents the working class.) Benjamin also represents the old people of
Jack Moses Jack Moses Jack Moses (12 January 1861 – 10 July 1945) was an Australian outback bush poet who wrote the poems ""Bullocky Bill"" and ""The Dog Sat on the Tuckerbox"" and many other famous verses from which the well-known Dog on the Tuckerbox monument and the Nine and Five Mile legend of Gundagai were inspired. Moses' poems were considered by Gundagai Shire Council to be of extreme significance as they immortalised the historic Australian town of Gundagai and influenced the famous Australian iconic monument, the Dog on the Tuckerbox, five miles from Gundagai, to come into being. A street was