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Summary: Some animals are more equal than others.
Review: Animal Farm was written as an attack against Soviet-style communism. Once the reader understands that many of the animals are equally as intelligent as most humans, the story opens up to many laughs.This is a must-read, however, take note that it is not at all a desparate cry out for capitalism. Rather, it is a story about controlling the means of production. Throughout, the reader is reminded that the animals were never better off then when the means of production were socially owned and distribution of duty and goods was decided upon "democratically." I do not believe that Orwell understood why a socialist state must inevitably fall to dictatorship - had he made that clear, then the story would earn four stars. However, it is quite clear that Orwell is a socialist, scapegoating power-hungry individuals for the failure of Marxism. That is why this book is revered in both leftist and rightest circles. Don't let Orwell pull a fast one on you here...
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Summary: This Little Piggy Went To The Soviet Union
Review: This is a classic book and a must read for anyone who is interested in history or politics. In his work, Orwell talks about the life of a group of animals on a farm who decide to overthrow their master. After overthrowing they planned to start a new government which at first is based on the animals being represented equally. As the book goes along however one can see how certain animals abuse their power.
This is a great book for many reasons but mainly because it is easy to read and understand the links Orwell is making to communism. Animal Farm is a great story and Orwell does a great job developing characters in such a short time. Do yourself a favor and give it a look
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Summary: my review
Review: I thought this book was very interesting. I liked how all the animals came together to defeat Mr. Jones, but I didn't like it how the animals were able to talk to humans. I thought that was going a little overboard. But I thought it was cool the way the animals, though devistated, pulled through everything with hope and courage. I liked it how so many bad things, like how the windmill that they had worked so hard on was destroyed twice, happened to them, but they kept their heads high, and just kept rebuilding it.
All in all, I thought it was okay, and would only recommend it to people that like fiction.
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Summary: my review
Review: I thought this book was very interesting. I thought it was cool how the animals formed together to get rid of Mr. Jones.But one of the things I didn't really like about this book was how the animals were able to talk to humans. But, I did like it how the animals never gave up. Even when everyone was against them, when the windmill kept getting destroyed, and when they found out that Snowball was betraying them, they still found a way to pull through together, and not fall apart like you think they would.
All in all i thought this book was fairly good, and i would only recommend it to people that are into fiction.
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: I enjoyed reading Animal Farm very much. I found it amusing how pigs (of all animals) could rise above the rest to become dictators. George Orwell did a fantastic job in linking the pigs to communism. My favorite character in the book was Boxer, the horse. He was such a good guy (horse) that after the glue factory incident I lost all my respect for Napoleon, Squealer and the rest of the christmas hams.
Since I finished the book I have not looked at any animal- tame or wild- in the same way. I was supposed to help my grandpa slaughter cows, but I just couldn't after what they did yo me favorite horse, Boxer. I have treated all animals with the utmost respect, with the exception of pigs. I have noticed that the ruthlessness of the pigs in the book, are not far off from reality. The pigs often ram each other created swelling in the belly.
All in all, I tip my hat to George Orwell for his excellent job in writing this book for all the world to experience.
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Summary: The link to communism
Review: Animal Farm is a book that describes communism in Russia's history. It is written with symbols, so it is easy to understand for all ages. Animal Farm is also sophisticated enough to keep all ages interested. Major, the older pig, symbolizes Karl Marx. He tells of a dream where animals prosper and they are not controlled by humans. Soon after he tells of this dream, he dies. One night, when the humans are expecially lazy, the animals overthrow the humans and chase them from the farm. Snowball and Napolean appear as leaders, who symbolize Trotsky and Stalin respectively. Snowball and Napolean usually disagree on how to run things, but Snowball presents the ideas that are better for the whole. While Snowball was the better speaker, Napolean gained support between speeches easier. On a specific day, Snowball and Napolean were giving reasons for and against building a windmill. Snowball was for it and gave an inspiring speech about how it would be hard but the luxeries that came from it would far outweigh the work. Napolean on the other hand gave a half-hearted speech on why it was a bad idea. After his speech, he makes a little yelp and dogs come in and chase Snowball off the farm, just as Trotsky was expelled from Russia. Napolean starts to go against the main rules of Animalism (communism) and his propaganda machine, Squealer, always explains how they "forgot" the rule or parts of it while he just changed it. Napolean gets richer while the farm as a whole gets poorer. Rations get cut and things are the same if not worse than before the animals took over. The only one who realizes this is the stubborn donkey named Benjamin. The only one that realizes what Napolean was doing, and for some reason does nothing. I recommend this for anyone interested in a good story, expecially if you want to learn more about how communism went down in Russia. It provides the Communist story in a easy to learn way, yet does not dumb it down so that you get left with holes in what happened.
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Summary: Ripe for Attack
Review: I hadn't thought much about Animal Farm since I wrote an essay on it for English class in tenth grade. But now, in my first year of college now, I just read the book again for my English class. My friend's parents work in publishing, and she gave me an advanced copy of a book attacking Orwell's idea. The book is called Snowball's Chance, by John Reed, and has gotten some attention here in New York. It got me to thinking that in some ways he's right to not like Animal Farm, because Animal Farm does sort of blame the Russians, as if we don't have a lot of problems of our own. But I liked Animal Farm, too, because the Russians really did have an oppressive system.
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Summary: Were this farm's livestock the original "Party animals"?
Review: The strongest message I can see this book delivering is the tenacity of elitism. So many political movements try to place the blame for the class system or pecking order on the system they are fighting, when in truth it's a basic facet of human nature. Under communist rule, nations merely trade one elite for another--the bourgeoisie for the Party "central committees". Human nature at its current stage of evolution is not ready for equality. We must never confuse resentment at being lower than we might prefer in the "food chain" with a bona fide belief in equality. It's not the same, as revolutions have proven again and again. The classic saying "everyone is created equal, but some are more equal than others" originated right here in these pages. The allegory to that in this book is the way the pigs lead the "revolution" against the human farmer, and become the new ruling class in the process. As with communism, this is done with a lot of "progressive" doctrine and holier-than-thou pontificating--put 'em under your thumb and make them think they like it. The definition of "treason" or "sedition" remains the same--disagreement with the status quo. The closing line of the Who's classic song comes to mind: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
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Summary: Overall, disappointing
Review: I read this book last year as an assignment. When my teacher described the plot, it all seemed quite interesting and clever. But when I read it, I found it to be utterly disappointing. The plot was not carried out well. The characters were made very generic. I would NOT recommend this book.
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Summary: Pretty [bad]!
Review: I didn't like this book at all! I don't care if it was supposed to symbolize history with the Russian Revolution plot but Orwell could've certainly done better to show this historical conflict in a professional and non-fiction type manner than having barn animals fight and kill each other. I wish everyone in this book died cause I didn't care one bit about any of the characters! Orwell didn't make this novel interesting and it seems like a first grader could read this book and like it because everyone at that age thinks that animals fighting is fun. However, I had to read this book in high school and why would I care about this ridiculous nonsense anymore? How dumb did Orwell think I was! I don't get why this book was even published! I advise you not to read this book you will certainly waste your time unless if you're into the silly plots that would never exist in the 21st century
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