What is satirical about this passage from animal farm?
"The cat joined the reeducation committee…she was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance"
what is satirical?!?!
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The entire book is satire. The passage is a commentary about communism- how the government can attempt to abolish caste differences (we’re all comrades), but it can never change the laws of nature. While the cat and birds are both comrades, and therefore equals, the birds cannot trust the cat (it’s not in their nature to do so), and rightly they shouldn’t, for the cat would eat them (as is his nature to do).
Cats eat sparrows.
From Shmoop