Some of the main similarities between Animal Farm and Tunisia were that both revolutions were inspired by a cause or an action. Animal farm was inspired by the speech given by Old Major, while in Tunisia, the revolution was inspired by the man who lit himself on fire. Also in Animal Farm, the animals all heard about the revolution from Old Major. He was the reason for there to even be a revolution. While in Tunisia the word got around by Facebook and Wiki Leaks. So both revolutions spread out in different ways.
The similarities that they both had was the fact that they got both inspired by somethimg or someone. For example in Animal farm Old Major inspired everyone with his speech,
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. Our labor tills the soil, our dung fertilizes it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. You cows that I see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year?...”
This part of the speech shows how Old Major is talking about the problems that the farm animals have. Also how they can do something about the humans who are mistreating them and treating them unfair.
In Tunisia, the fact that the man lit himself on fire and the reason why he did this was because he wanted to see a change in his government was what made people think. It made them think how that guy did not just burn himself for nothing, but for something that is affecting everyone. When more and more people started to hear about what this guy did is when the revolution slowly started to build up. Slowly and slowly more and more people started to realize how they all want to see a change in their government as well. So basically the guy who lit himself on fire was who inspired the revolution.
Old Major was like the guy who lit himself on fire because they both inspired people to start a revolution.
