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Summary: AN ESSENTIAL READ!!!
Review: I found Animal Farm one of the most incredible books i've ever read! It really made me think; Orwell has a way of captivating and scaring the reader, like in 1984. The grim reality of a good idea, communism, however the failure of it in practise is displayed so truthly in this book. Using major as Marx, Snowball as Trotsky and Napoleon as Stalin a depressing and devastating novel is written about communist Russia. Although i am only 16 i felt this book gave me a greater understanding of the ideas and failures of communism, after learning about the cold war in school.
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Summary: It's About Communism. In Russia. Duh.
Review: In case you haven't guessed (and shame on you if you haven't), this book is a transparent allegory of the Communist Revolution in Russia. It's NOT a literary masterwork, it's NOT brilliant prose, and most of all, it is NOT a random story about farm animals.
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Summary: Wow
Review: It's a real shame that in this modern day of ours, we don't have authors like George Orwell around. I'm not going to try and make a critical analysis for Animal Farm because it speaks for itself. This book is original, funny, and shows despotism at its best. Fantastic.
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Summary: Mixed feelings
Review: After reading Animal Farm I had mixed feelings about the novel I was not sure if I liked it or not. I do believe it is a creative novel the plot and storyline, but I do not find it very appealing. I do not believe many teengers as myself would enjoy reading this novel.
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Summary: Four legs good, two legs bad, this book good!
Review: Taking a Russian history class and learning in detail about Joseph Stalin's rule would help one understand Animal Farm much better, as well as the characters. George Orwell's hatred of totalitarianism, especially that of the Stalinist USSR, formed the basis for this short satirical fiction.A band of oppressed farm animals oust Jones, their cruel human owner and take over the farm. Led by two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, the animals proceed to run the farm by themselves so they are no longer exploited. Napoleon is clearly Stalin, while Snowball is based on Leon Trotsky, and the Old Major is Lenin. Squealer may be Molotov or Kaganovich, but I'm not sure. The first attack on the Farm by Jones and his men is based on the Russian Civil War (1918-1921), where disorganized factions of anti-communists attacked the Soviet Union from all sides, and lost. However, things don't always go in parallel, as the Old Major dies before the Revolution. Lenin of course precipitated the Revolution in 1917. And note the date of the liberation of Manor Farm: 12 October. That is close to 24 October, the date of the Bolshevik Revolution. Other items: Boxer the horse is the epitome of the hard worker whose two sayings are "Napoleon is always right" and "I will work harder." In fact he may be Stakhanov, the worker whose team so efficiently met their quota in one of Stalin's 5-Year Plans, that the word Stakhanovite became synonymous with an A-One Soviet worker. And the inability of most animals to read only the first two letters of the alphabet hint at their being lowly, illiterate subjects blindly obedient to the State. The Seven Commandments--ironic for a Biblical reference in an atheist system-- plays an important key to the book, as they keep changing during Napoleon's reign. They are: "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy, 2) Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend, 3) No animal shall wear clothes, 4) No animal shall sleep in a bed, 5) No animal shall drink alcohol, 6) No animal shall kill any other animal, and 7) All animals are equal." However, as Napoleon consolidates his rule, the Commandments become slightly altered. For example, after the animal executions, analogous to Stalin's purges, the sixth Commandment has the words "without cause" appended. And talk about irony in using the name of Napoleon for the Stalin character when in fact Napoleon invaded Russia, the result of which increased distrust of the West by Russians. Orwell's portrait of the totalitarian state would be finalized in his masterpiece 1984. Animal Farm was a preview for that grand work, but the final thing that comes through in this book is that the Stalinist regime was just as oppressive as the czarist regime, with the ordinary animals on the receiving end-i.e. "but some animals are more equal than others."
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Summary: good
Review: This is a book about a group of animals took over the control of their owner's farm. It wasn't that interesting to me when I first read it, but after I learned about the Russian Revolution in my history class, I start to understand more about the theme that was behind the story. The animals and the animal leaders (pigs) in this story were representing the Russian people and the Communism Party that took control of Russia during the Revolution.
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Summary: very good, recommend highly
Review: this book was very good. the characters were developed very well, and the parallels to communist russia were excellent. this book was very fun to read, and the author had much detail and a very good style. it was a very good idea...animals throwing over a farm and running it themselves. i enjoyed this book very much and would highly recommend to anyone.
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Summary: Animal farm
Review: I believe that animal farm was a very intersting book. The whole message of the book was great, it was simple yet very complex . If you dont know all about Russian history it's ok because you dont have to understand all the history to enjoy reading the book. Animal farm is a short get to the point kind of book. The excitment gets you all at once. And when it does you'll uderstand more and more about what the message of the book is. Well at least i did. I like the fact that animal farm doesnt have a solid ending to it. The animals are stuck outside watching the pigs and people play cards. I really have no idea what you get out of that. But all and all the book was good. It kept my attention and i hate reading.
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Summary: Animal Farm Review
Review: Animal farm is a good book with a lot of action. It is a book everyone should read at least once in their life because not only is it an exciting book it has a lot of things you can learn from it. The book is based on the Russian government and the ruthless dictator Stalin who is portrayed as a pig in the story. The story gives you a lot of historical information you might not know. For example in Russian History Stalin had a band of secret police that did his "dirty work". In the book Napoleon (pig who portrays Stalin) takes puppies away from their mother and later on in the book He brings them out to chase Snowball off of the Farm. These including many more historical facts are within the book. The book is not just about animals that take over a farm. The real point behind the book is to show how ridiculous the Russian government use to be. This book is one of my favorite books because it really never slows down. It starts with action and ends with action. The author also writes so that you can kind of imagine in your head what the farm was like when the animals took over. Also it is an easy book to understand. There is not one moment through out the book were you are lost or confused. It also shows that power corrupts and that it can change everything. The animals may have wanted to get away from Mr. Jones ways but what happened was they ended up just where they started with the abuse and excessive work. I highly recommend the book not only is it not confusing, fun to read, and funny at points it is also a fun way to learn history.
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Summary: animal farm review
Review: animal farm is a fantastic book that can show you how somone who starts out with a genuine idea and gets curropted by power. it goes along the lines with the russian president stalin and what he did. before and during world war 2. It is about these animals on a farm that has an idea about freedom and one pig named major told these aniimals about this song called "beasts of england" before he died. After that the animals rebell and start their own farm and are actually sucessfull at it. their are two pigs that are in charge and the pigs makes up commandments for the animals to follow. after the one pi gets the other pig kicked out. The pig comes up with plansto build a winmill. the animals have trouble building this design the pig came up with and it gets saotaged and blown apart . But during that this pig takes his seat at the top and begins his reign over the animals which is very brutal in the begging but it stops. Then something terrible happens and send s the animals espically a few into disbelief and thats basically the end. Except it does chronicle the time russian president stalin's reighn over russia and te events that happened.
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