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Summary: Not Quite a "Fairy Story"
Review: This lovely and compelling novel is, by far, one of my favorites. It is a view of the Stalin reign cleverly disguised as a fairy tale; concisely written, and yet poetic. The symbolic use of animals works wonderfully with the abstract 'moral'. The funniest thing, in my opinion, is that Orwell, with his wry sense of humor, dipicts the communist dictators as pigs. How true! A lot of the kids in my class read this book for their book reports, but they have no idea of what they're getting into! Why don't you give it a try?
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: For being a short novel, it contained a great abundance of symbolism, and theme. When I read it, I just couldn't stop flipping the pages. Orwell makes these seemingly simple farm animals come to life, and their story is almost believeable. Also, he makes the reader think, and compare the situation in teh book to reality's situation. It's an incredible book.
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Summary: Fascinating
Review: We found the content of this book very fascinating. It 's a political allegory of the Communism. The little farm symbolises the Russian country. All characters of the Communism are represented by animals. The two pigs per example Napoleon and Snowball are Stalin and Trotzki. We were thrilled by reading this novel and we will recommend it to all the other students in our age. We were a bit disappointed by the end of the story, we expected a happy ending.
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Summary: A Book about Reality
Review: "Animal Farm" is a book which is based on a historical background. The themes are: "The Russian Revolution" and "Power Corrupts". The story itself contains a believable mixture of human and animal characters. All animals of this book symbolize persons they lived in reality. For example: The pig Napoleon stands for Stalin, the pig Snowball represents Trotzky etc. The end of the novel is particularly bleak. No solution is held out - the bloody and cruel way in which the animals hopes of a happy and free future are destroyed. The events are told in a chronological order. Orwell's style is straightforward and direct and we tend to take what he says at face value. We do not question his interpretation of the characters and feel that he is telling the truth. I think when you want to read this story, you have to know the history, because otherwise it would be very difficult to understand the diffrent contexts. It's a book which is surely very interesting for history fans
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Summary: all animals are equal , but ......
Review: some animals are more equal than others. The animals at Manor Farm decide to take matters in their own hands. The revolution begins with the inspiring speech by old Major. Old Major dies soon thereafter and the rebellion is led by the boars snowball and napoleon.The animals take over the farm. They are supervised by the pigs. the seven commandments are laid down.The revolution starts to stutter when Snowball is driven out forcibly by napoleon and his guard dogs.The pigs and dogs take over the farm and each commandment undergoes a change to suit their excesses. The animals are forced into slave labour. Boxer the most commited and the hardest worker in the farm is worked to death. The pigs start dealing with the humans and finally ape them. The revolution which began with "Four legs good , two legs bad" ends with "Four legs good, two legs better" with the pigs walking on two legs. Only the cynicism of Benjamin the donkey remains remains constant. Animal Farm is a work of Genius. period.
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Summary: School serves us well..
Review: I just read this book in my English One class at my local Highschool. I thought it was one of the best books I have ever read, and it had great issues on totalitariansism, and republics. It helped us learn a great deal about both of those while still give us the humor of a normal book. I would recomend this to every kid and hope they enjoyed it as much as I did.
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Summary: Understanding human nature.
Review: This book has been around a long time and I know different people get different things out of it. It was required reading in my high school English Lit class and I happened to read it in conjunction with Marx's "Communist Manifesto" because I was writing a term paper on Communism and Socialism for History. For me, Animal Farm really helped me understand why equality is an easy concept to embrace in theory but a sometimes difficult one to maintain in reality. It taught me a lot about human nature.
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Summary: Let's just say . . . WONDERFUL . . . GREAT . . . THE BEST
Review: This was an amazingly good book. the writing is great and understandable, and the story is really good, but the ending is the best. I also like the fact that it was so short. I was so interested after the first 10 pages that I couldn't put it down and I read the whole thing in just one night. I really don't suggest you miss this classic, because it is one of the best books I've read (among Steinbeck, Dumas, and more) READ READ READ!!!
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Summary: Human nature
Review: After reading this novel, I felt that George Orwell was refering to the average human. In Animal Farm, there were many examples of human nature, today. Selfishness was expressed in Napolean's character but Snowball, on the other hand, represented selflessness.
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Summary: A Great Fable
Review: This had to have been my favorite book that I read my freshman year of high school, after Harry Potter of course. I was very skeptical because I get bored very easily. But, I read it in one night and I loved it!!! It is such a great historical novel because of it's parallels with the Russian Revoulation. If you don't have time to read it, make time.
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