Animal Farm

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Summary: Wilbur Goes Red
Review: Now before I start don't be offended by the title of this review, and if you don't know who Wilbur is he is a pig in the book "Charlettes Web". Animal Farm is basicly a history of russia's government rule, how Karl Marx had this great dream where no one was poor and everyone was happy, (by the way Old Major is Karl Marx in the book.) but of course it does not work out that way and slowly throughout the entire book how the pigs start running the farm there own way and eventualy the farm is, well, a communist farm. This is such a good book to show the infalicies of man, anyone should read this book.

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Summary: Animal Author, First Class!
Review: Animal Farm is one of the greatest works of fiction every written! George Orwell summarizez the Russian Revolution Remarkably well through this allegory. The famine in the winter is similar to the famine in russia and the windmill is an example of Industrilization in Russia. THe animals are well thought out too, Mr Jones is Czar Nicholas II, Napoleon is Joesph Stalin, Snowball is Leon Trotsky, Old Major is Karl Marx, the Dogs are the Secret Police, Mollie is white russia, Squealer is the Bolsheviks, Animalism is Stalinism and Boxer is the loyal proleteriat/working class. I highly recommed this book to eveyrone that wants to learn about the Russian Revolution in a fun way instead of reading a boring textbook about it. George Orwell=Animal Author, First Class!

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Summary: Amazing!!!!!
Review: When I picked this book up for the first time my dad told me briefly what it was about. On the first night I read two thirds of the book, and I was amazed of how a writer could turn a child's normal subject into a adult's tale of communism. i rcommend this book to anybody from 10 years old to 100.

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Summary: Greed sufficates attempts at equal rights.
Review: "Animal Farm" is a book which so eloquently depicts even the greatest intentions being spoiled. In this book pigs have grasped power from the rest of the farm animals and deceived these animals for the pigs' own good. After successfully leading a rebellion against humans the farm seems strong, democratic, equal and moving forward but then a pig with a different agenda on his mind seizes control. I think this book represents everything that can go wrong in a society once based on steadfast morals.

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Summary: these are truly political animals
Review: Forget the Republican elephant or the Democratic donkey, these are the true political animals. Orwell knows politics like Alfred Hitchcock knew nail-biting, edge-of-the-seat horror and suspense. I originally read this book in high school, a common introduction to literature for many of us, aside from comic books. The character who stands out most for me is the pig Snowball who plays Goebbles to the chief boar Napoleon's Hitler. This is indeed a parable of the Nazi regime, beginning as a bid for the rights of the farm animals and soon degenerating into totalitarian fascism, with the motto "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". Much more poetic IMHO than either "Deutschland über alles" or "Heut Deutschland, morgen die welt!" (translation: "Today Germany, tomorrow the world!") If you like tales of corrution and the darker side of la Revolución get this book. Shoot, I might even go back and read it again myself.

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Summary: Historical Pigs
Review: The book is very well describing the problem of a Communist society with all the bad things that happen there. The fact that the whole story is fable gives us the possibility of looking at the happenings in a different way. It is much easier to describe social misunderstandings if you take an exterior position. (humans are looking at animals). This style offers us an objective observation. We enjoyed reading this book because it makes clear the problems of communism in a funny way and it is a good alternative to history lessons. Generally you can say, this fable is something between a history book and a novel.

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Summary: Historical Pigs
Review: It's a story of a farm where the animals make a revolution against their master and overtake the farm. At the beginning everything is fine and all animals are equal, but then the pigs take the control over the others. Gradually it becomes worse and worse. The animals have to work the whole day and a few of them die. The pigs lead a good life and the others suffer. But the animals can't defend themselves against the pigs and so the pigs keep the power. The book allows a lot of interpretations. The situation reminds to the historical period of communism in Russia with Stalin etc. People who are interested in history should read this book and build their own opinion. If you are not interested in history or politics you should prefer another book or just read it because of the animals. (There is also a funny film). We personally did not really like the story, maybe we should have had more time to read it.

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Summary: A modern fable
Review: This book is a very good allegory of the happenings during the Second World War. All the cruelty and the cheating of the Soviet Union is shown in a special way. Animals stand for human beings, it is a modern fable. George Orwell has managed the happenings in a very interesting way and shows the bad things very exactly, so that everyone can understand it, but what the person make with this information is his own problem, you can just say, well it is a nice animal story or you can learn from the story and interpret it. I think people who doesn't like the book, hasn't really understood the story.

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Summary: Beastly introduction into Communism
Review: To adapt a historical political subject on the world of animals is actually a great idea, which G. Orwell realised in a quite funny and interesting way, but still the story didn't blow my head off, just because it was nothing new to me at all (we just had socialism in history when we read the book and we actually went into it far deeper than Orwell does in his book). For people who don't know that much about the whole thing Animal Farm is a great chance to learn something about Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Trotzki and their ways of thinking and acting, but not to be only amused.

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Summary: Instructive and entertaining
Review: George Orwell has written a very interesting story. I like the idea of how he managed to transform the actual Russian story into a fictional story with animals. the film made to the book is funny to watch and entertaining but unfortunately the book doesn't always agree with the film version. The book can be recommended and also the film version. Whoever watches the film should read the book first though in order to learn the real facts.