Why is understanding how much old yeller loves travis important?
a. it allows the reader to better understand why travis eventually comes to like old yeller.
b. it allows the reader to better understand why old yeller will risk his life to protect travis.
c. it demonstrates how dogs are the best companions for young boys.
d. it proves that mrs. coates was wrong to try and shoo old yeller away when she first saw him.

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.