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
Lynchings of Benjamin and Mollie French they said, Lake Jones was "the best nigger in the country." The KKK broke into the jail, took the Frenches about a mile north of Warsaw, and hanged them both from a tree on J.H. McDaniels' (McDonnell's in another account) farm. Lake Jones lived with his cousin Mollie and her husband Benjamin French in a run-down building called "the Malt-house" in Warsaw. When he moved in with the Frenches, Jones contributed to the household food and paid their rent. After he moved out, the Frenches schemed to get the rest of his money. On April 19, 1876, Jones went to