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Summary: Animal farm
Review: I believe that animal farm was a very intersting book. The whole message of the book was great, it was simple yet very complex . If you dont know all about Russian history it's ok because you dont have to understand all the history to enjoy reading the book. Animal farm is a short get to the point kind of book. The excitment gets you all at once. And when it does you'll uderstand more and more about what the message of the book is. Well at least i did. I like the fact that animal farm doesnt have a solid ending to it. The animals are stuck outside watching the pigs and people play cards. I really have no idea what you get out of that. But all and all the book was good. It kept my attention and i hate reading.
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Summary: Animal Farm Review
Review: Animal farm is a good book with a lot of action. It is a book everyone should read at least once in their life because not only is it an exciting book it has a lot of things you can learn from it. The book is based on the Russian government and the ruthless dictator Stalin who is portrayed as a pig in the story. The story gives you a lot of historical information you might not know. For example in Russian History Stalin had a band of secret police that did his "dirty work". In the book Napoleon (pig who portrays Stalin) takes puppies away from their mother and later on in the book He brings them out to chase Snowball off of the Farm. These including many more historical facts are within the book. The book is not just about animals that take over a farm. The real point behind the book is to show how ridiculous the Russian government use to be. This book is one of my favorite books because it really never slows down. It starts with action and ends with action. The author also writes so that you can kind of imagine in your head what the farm was like when the animals took over. Also it is an easy book to understand. There is not one moment through out the book were you are lost or confused. It also shows that power corrupts and that it can change everything. The animals may have wanted to get away from Mr. Jones ways but what happened was they ended up just where they started with the abuse and excessive work. I highly recommend the book not only is it not confusing, fun to read, and funny at points it is also a fun way to learn history.
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Summary: animal farm review
Review: animal farm is a fantastic book that can show you how somone who starts out with a genuine idea and gets curropted by power. it goes along the lines with the russian president stalin and what he did. before and during world war 2. It is about these animals on a farm that has an idea about freedom and one pig named major told these aniimals about this song called "beasts of england" before he died. After that the animals rebell and start their own farm and are actually sucessfull at it. their are two pigs that are in charge and the pigs makes up commandments for the animals to follow. after the one pi gets the other pig kicked out. The pig comes up with plansto build a winmill. the animals have trouble building this design the pig came up with and it gets saotaged and blown apart . But during that this pig takes his seat at the top and begins his reign over the animals which is very brutal in the begging but it stops. Then something terrible happens and send s the animals espically a few into disbelief and thats basically the end. Except it does chronicle the time russian president stalin's reighn over russia and te events that happened.
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Summary: Great, but a bit too short
Review: After reading animal farm, i fel a bit dissappointed. Throughout the beginning of the book, it was details, details, details, but as story wore on, less details were given. From the wonderful battle of cowshed, to the LAME battle for the windmill, the things that make the battle of cowshed grea were details, but with the battle of he windmill, it seemed that there were about 1/2 the details that were in the 1st battle. It seemed that George Orwell just got lazy, and just wanted to finish this book.But on to the positive! This book was HALARIOUS (in the fact that if you take the symbols for who/what they were). The book was like a season of SNL all rolled up into one small tiny book. It also compared russian history and the dealings of animal/manor farm VERY accurately. It's just too bad the end could not be the same qulity as the beginning.
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Summary: Animal Farm is great
Review: Animal Farm can be enjoyed by people of all ages. It's story of animals overtaking a farm will draw in a middle school crowd while its deep social symbols will draw anyone from late high school and up. It's satire of communism is hilarious and half the fun of the book is seeing how Orwell shows people from all classes in life. From Boxer the worker to Napoleon the leader all can be seen as a real life social class. This is Orwell's best work, and one of the best novels the English language has ever seen.
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Summary: a masterpiece
Review: George Orwell has done an amazing job of this book. It is so simple to read that many schools require Animal Farm to be read by junior high schoolers. Yet, it is also required reading for college freshmen because of the complex nature of the story. The story is an analogy for the 1917 Russian revolution and the rise of communism later. Orwell's masterstroke was making the protagonists animals. This way he could tell his story without acknowledging what he was really talking about. He uses animals to portray how inhuman the former masters were and to give sympathy for animals plight. Animal Farm opens with the animals chasing away the owner of the farm and the beggining of it being run by animals. The story progresses from the optimism of the ideas of shared community to the cynicism of a power grab and the new leaders are as bad as the original ones. Orwell describes how the new leaders change the rules slowly and in incremental steps so as not to alarm the followers. Any opposition is either exiled or killed. By the time the rest of the animals realize that they were swindled of their ideas, it is too late to stop the process. The book ends where communism was in the 1970's, stagnated. The odd part of this is that Orwell wrote Animal Farm in 1946 and much of the book is actually prediction. This book is both wonderfull to read and a dire prediction. Orwell shows how the best of intentions can be twisted into the worst of nightmares. It is a must read.
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: Animal Farm on the outside might seem like a children's story, but it is far from it. George Orwell uses this tale to cleverly disguise his thoughts on politics and government, and if we are not careful, how we can be led in to situations as despicable as the ones we were originally freed from. The animals were lead blindly into this, never questioning the pigs' authority or their doings. What I found fascinating was how the seven commandments were changed somewhat (ex. no animal should drink alchohol to excess when it was orignally no animal should drink alchohol) so the pigs could do as they pleased as the humans once did, and how the other animals were fooled in this piece of hypocrisy. How Napolean bided his time until he had complete dictatorship, while looking at it with an unbiased view, was very smart if not cunning. The pigs used many clever persuasions to make the illusion of happiness, more food than ever, and little work on the farm when the animals literally starved and worked to death, like Boxer, who was sent to the glue factory by the pigs for his pains. All in all, this book really makes you think, which is the biggest reason I liked it, and the whole theme of Animal Farm is worded in my favorite line-
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: This novel was extremely interesting; the concept of animals overthrowing humans and later mocking them is extraordinary. Also, the relation between the test and historical events adds a lot. This was one of the best books I have ever read. I recommend this book to anyone! The characters are pefect aswell as the storyline.
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Summary: A lesson on equality and lies (and excess commentary)
Review: The story Animal Farm is something that every person in the entire world should read. This simple tale of a group of animals, neglected, abused, enslaved, and put down, rising up against their hateful masters with the hopes of creating an egalitarian society was meant as a commentary on the state of the Soviet Union. The depiction created of a Communist society from its conception to its death is one of tyranny, deceit, distrust, and rivalry that destroys the pure intentions of the original revolutionaries. Though the depth of the underlying political commentary may be lost on people with no interest in the operation of the economy or the government, Animal Farm is a very accessible story with easy to understand lessons in morality, fairness, and honesty. One note on the additional "filler" information added to this edition, it is both poorly written and uninteresting. While the life of George Orwell is interesting and something worth learning about, especially if you have aspirations towards being a socialist, the author of this section does such a poor job that reading tax codes in IRS publications is more interesting. In summary, buy this book, read it, lend it to someone else, read it again, lend it to more people, read it again, and dream of a world of egalitarian communism. Or you can just read the story, enjoy the struggles and triumphs of the heroic animals, despise the greedy pigs, and share the experience with someone else.
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Summary: An Excellent Satire of the Soviet Union
Review: A good warm-up to George Orwell's greater work, Animal Farm is a satire of the Soviet Union told through the episodes of a farm that has been taken over by it's animals. The heavy symbolism in Animal Farm is apparent everywhere. The competing Snowball & Napoleon being obvious metaphors for Leon Trotsky & Joseph Stalin. The windmill being another metaphor for the Soviet economy. The time I spent reading Animal Farm, although brief, was enjoyable. The plot moved along at a nice pace and the events were well timed. I would recommend this book to those even not interested in reading 1984 or learning much about communism. Even without the political and philosophical messages, Animal Farm would still make an interesting story about animals taking over a farm.
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