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Summary: A Thought Provoking Classic
Review: "Animal Farm" is starts off a group of farm animals who uprise against their human owner and to make their farm the first to ever be run by animals. The book's main topic is not life on the farm; it is about more worldly topics that unfortunately too many have to deal with everyday: greed, power, and corruption. It is a satire of communism and the Soviet Revolution. A satire not in the sense of poking fun at those events but sharply criticizing them and those responsible. While reading the book, you cannot help but feel the animals who are being governed are partially responsible for the naivety and negligence. My eleventh grade class had to read it as a part of the syllabus and we all enjoyed it. We read it not only because we had to in class but many even went ahead and read it on our own at home. We would often question the animals for putting up with it, but it is hard to realize that so many humans did for so many years in communist countries. George Orwell does not preach in the book and it is not a boring retelling of past events. Amidst all the drama, it had a wry sense of humour to it. This book far exceeded my expectations.
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Summary: Golly it's good
Review: And that's the truth. What more can I say? Buy it, and no points for helpful or not, Ok?
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Summary: Animalism
Review: Through a coincidence of history, Animal Farm appeared in stores the same month that the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The irony of this publication date for one of the most politicized novels of the 20th century did not escape its early readers, or its author. Orwell made no secret of the fact that his writing, and Animal Farm in particular, was single-mindedly focused on the obliteration of totalitarian regimes. Animal Farm, while obviously referring to the general scope of all forms of totalitarian governments, may be seen as a satire of the Russian Revolution of 1917 in particular. Because of this controversial subject matter, British publishing houses were loathe to take on Orwell's work, and he was rejected throughout his entire first round of publishing attempts. Upon the novel's eventual publication in 1945, however, Orwell was instantly famous. Animal Farm is set on an English farm named Manor Farm, owned by Mr. Jones. The fable-like story concerns the rebellion of the farm animals, and is told entirely from their point of view. The story opens with Mr. Jones stumbling into bed, unable to lock up the farm properly after a night of excessive whisky drinking. Old Major, the venerable and well-respected pig, has called all the animals together for a meeting to take place after Mr. Jones has gone to bed, and they gather outside the big barn on the farm. Old Major tells them all that he had a miraculous dream last night, in which he saw his approaching death, and also understood more clearly the life of animals. He wants to impart his realizations to the rest of the animals while he still can, as well as rouse them to take the action that he has come to feel is necessary. Soon after, the animals rebel, and the Animalism regime begins. This book is a definite must-read for everyone and I give it five stars.
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Summary: A chilling allegory that hits close to home
Review: George Orwell's classic political allegory is many times seen as a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution, and it's characters are often seen as parallels for Marx, Trotsky, and Stalin. While this is true, Animal Farm is also in part an allegory of the government that can come about. Tyranny is bad, but Totalinarianism is no better, and the hunger for greater power is within us all, even if we begin with good intentions.
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Summary: very thoughtful
Review: this book is written to criticize Stalin and the soviet empire. it shows how the revolution was honorable and positive, but lead to nothing new but the same treatment, just under new leadership. one thing to remember, George Orwell was a socialist. he believed in socialism. but what he saw in the Soviet Union was an aberration of that. the Soviet Union, under both Lenin and Stalin became a totalitarian state--something that Orwell goes into much deeper in 1984--and not worthy of praise as a true socialist empire.
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Summary: still so important even today
Review: "...but Animal farm was written almost sixty years ago!" And it was, written by George Orwell in the onset of the Second World War and the Red Scare the U.S went through. Orwell wrote Animal Farm to express his views on how Communism and idealism and nationalism however good in theory, could not work in practice due to the faults of human nature. Look around you--it is happening today, and the more people who read Animal Farm and understand it's message, the better.
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Summary: Dangers of big government, not just communism
Review: the book may have originally been intended to show the downside of Soviet communism, but the message of the book is just as relevant in these current days of Hillary Clinton where no aspect of our lives is free from the government coming in to help us.
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Summary: Animal farm is awesome
Review: This was a great book. It was about a Farm with all sorts of Animals. The animals get sick of being tired of human control. There are all kinds of animals, Pigs, ducks, horses, sheep, mules, geese, and even mice. The pigs are the leaders, being the smartest animals, and take advantage of less intelligent animals. It shows the negative side of totalitarian leadership. The book was very heart-warming story about a horrible government and the struggle to stay alive. It explained the charters so well it seemed that you know them. It is a very sad book but still makes you smile.
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Summary: Review of animal farm
Review: In this book, a farm full of Animals decides to kick outtheir master and take over. They successfully do this but run into some problems throughout the future. First Snowball is the leader and then Napoleonkicks out Snowball and elects himself to lead. He ends up basically turning into a human and things end up just as they use to be with a human master. I think that the real turning point is when Snowball is kicked out. He was much more loyal to the animals than Napoleon ever was.Snowball would have kept things not only prosperous, but content. The animals would have been much more happy with Snowball. Napoleon takes advantage of hispower and uses it against his fellow animals. George Orwell is an incredible writer. He has an amazing imagination. Just how everything ran together was great. He made sure that there were plenty of turning points and chapters to keep you reading. His idea of animals ruling anything over a human was brought out to be the best. He did an excellent job choosing characters and making them out to be so different from one another. Each personality foreshadowed their future. I also like how he made the ending a little depressing but realistic. I would definitely recommend this book to just about anyone who can read. It's agreat book for kids, teenagers, and adults. It really expands your mind on the possibilities of an animal's world. This is the most imaginative book I might ever read. I had no idea it would be such a page-turner. Every animal's personality interacted with another's and that's what made it so interesting. I give it a 10/10.
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Summary: There's a reason this is a classic
Review: This story is well written and very entertaining, and that's before you start diving into the meaning. the story isn't just about the russian revolution, communism, totarlianism, socialism, but shows us the dangers that can happen to anyone in any system of government if we are not watchful and beware those of the silver tongue. I recommend this book to everyone, for entertainment, and as a warning.
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