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Summary: the more things change
Review: I recently reread this book after 25 years. In the 1970s, as a student, I was led to believe this book was about the USSR. It's not. It's about us and what we've become. It's about what happens when a well-intentioned but clueless cultural elite presumes to speak for everyone. It's about what happens when the masses "go along to get along" instead of standing up and fighting for what is morally and ethically right. I hope it ends better for us than it did for the animals.
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: The book animal farm was givin to our whole class to read. It starts off with the animals having a secret meeting. They talk about how they are being underfed, over worked and overall just mistreated by humans. So the pig Old Major has the idea of rebelling against the humans. And one night they do. The humans are out of Manor Farm. Later to be renamed Animal Farm. Now that the humans are gone the pigs seem to take the "leadership" role.( in quotes because animals dont think he is a leader, only he does.) Napoloen, the pig, after a number of suspenseful events takes controll of the farm. This book is more than meets the eye. The author George Orwell got his ideas, and characters from the Russian revolution. The overall message of this book is power can courupt people.
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Summary: The Saddest Ending I've Read So Far
Review: Animal Farm is a wonderfully written portrayal of our future as humans, yet I find it sadly lacking. Many of the beliefs the animals share are parallel to my own; I do not agree with the killing of animals for meat, forcing them to produce an absurd amount of milk for human consumption, or placing them in servitude to satisfy our own needs. While I find it gratifying to discover another who agrees with my ideas, the ending was so sad and incomplete I became depressed. Boxer, the hardest working animal on the farm, is slaughtered because he is no longer useful, and the pigs become absolute monarchs of a rule of terror enforced by attack dogs. Then the animals look on while their leaders mingle with humans and can no longer tell who is a pig and who is a human. That is where the story ends, leaving you to guess the outcome while the "less equal" animals continue to live in suffering. Not exactly my idea of a bedtime story.
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Summary: It isn't just about the former USSR.
Review: This book has received justified praise for showing the crowning irony of the Russian Revolution, namely, that those who took over the leadership of the oppressed quickly became identical to the oppressors whom they had overthrown. Meanwhile, the loyal followers could be counted on to bleat that week's eternal verity incessantly to drown out all independent, critical thought about the direction that the revolution was taking.But we left all of that behind in the last century, right? Wrong! Just consider the social conservative movement, with its dittohead sheep and its dogma of more freedom through less freedom. Or consider political correctness, whose most "progressive" elements can scarcely be distinguished from those whom they supposedly oppose. Animal Farm is about us, too.
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Summary: Animal farm...
Review: This book, although short, is an exelent example of taking an event in history and turning it into a book that displays it in a way that gets children into something that has a deeper meaning. It indirectly shows real events in history, and shows how power corrupts. This book can teach children about how one person can sieze control, and how you can turn into what you do not want to become by being greedy. Overall this book is a good book to pick up and read because it gets you to think, and you can see real events in history keep repeating themselves.
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Summary: A must read
Review: In the beginning, it may be a little slow to some people, but by the end, you will want to read it again and again. It is absolutely one of the best books i have ever read!
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Summary: Animal Farm by George Orwell
Review: Animal Farm by George Orwell is a powerful testimony of how absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The plot with the farm animals revolt to create the perfect society of their own. Based on the Russian Revolution and the subsequent events, Animal Farm proves to be an unique interpretation. Orwell's thoughts, shaped by his own personal experiences and surroundings, are evident is this piece. The horrors of a totalitarian regime areclear in the book. With the abundance of articulate symbolism and the convincing message, Animal Farm is a must read for all teen or older readers.
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Summary: A True Study of Human Nature
Review: This book has been on my bookshelf for years waiting to be read. Oh, how I wish I would have read it sooner. Even though the story sounds like a fairy tale about animals in a farm, all of a sudden you start to make connections throughout the book regarding the world in which we live now. This to me is amazing since it was written decades ago. All the animals can represent people you know or politicians/governments. It is an incredible story of how power changes the way we think and the way we treat each other. Incredible read!
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: This book is very exciting!! It has the most interesting main idea. The way that George Orwell writes this book, is how he makes it exciting!! Alot of times it is very sad though. Very very good book to read!!!
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Summary: Animal Farm is a different experience for all who read it.
Review: Animal Farm is a good book because it shows how on a regular farm the animals are mistreated and overworked. It also has an animal's point of veiw of how they are only fed enough to keep from dying. I think that the animals should stand up to that mean farmer. It was a good idea when they drank all of his beer to keep him from getting drunk. Farmer Jones should not be so careless twards his animals. Animal Farm has a great use of words.
After Old Major, the lead pig, dies Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer took over. They were crude. They sent Boxer, their hardest working horse, to the glue factory. The part I don't like is all of the death, fighting, and hatred. This book is good and bad. Read Animal Farm by:George Orwell to see for yourself. I do not recomend it for children under 10 because of the violence. I rate this book 4 stars.
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