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Summary: A True Study of Human Nature
Review: This book has been on my bookshelf for years waiting to be read. Oh, how I wish I would have read it sooner. Even though the story sounds like a fairy tale about animals in a farm, all of a sudden you start to make connections throughout the book regarding the world in which we live now. This to me is amazing since it was written decades ago. All the animals can represent people you know or politicians/governments. It is an incredible story of how power changes the way we think and the way we treat each other. Incredible read!
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: This book is very exciting!! It has the most interesting main idea. The way that George Orwell writes this book, is how he makes it exciting!! Alot of times it is very sad though. Very very good book to read!!!
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Summary: Animal Farm is a different experience for all who read it.
Review: Animal Farm is a good book because it shows how on a regular farm the animals are mistreated and overworked. It also has an animal's point of veiw of how they are only fed enough to keep from dying. I think that the animals should stand up to that mean farmer. It was a good idea when they drank all of his beer to keep him from getting drunk. Farmer Jones should not be so careless twards his animals. Animal Farm has a great use of words.
After Old Major, the lead pig, dies Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer took over. They were crude. They sent Boxer, their hardest working horse, to the glue factory. The part I don't like is all of the death, fighting, and hatred. This book is good and bad. Read Animal Farm by:George Orwell to see for yourself. I do not recomend it for children under 10 because of the violence. I rate this book 4 stars.
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Summary: Simply a great book
Review: I liked this book alot. Part of the reason that it is a great book is because it deals with a lot of the problems that was going on in World War II. It really shows what happend and why it hapend. Another great thin is that it's made so that children ten and under can under stand what a section of the world went through. This book should always be read in schools. So that the children can get a good understanding of what happend. The book also has a couple of funny sections. I rated this book as a five not just because of the history behind it, but because of the great message it sends to the reader at the end of the book. Which is sometimes it is not the leader or people think should be the leader who is the problem but it is the situation that is the problem.
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Summary: Good start, but the book is getting boring
Review: First when I started reading animal farm, I enjoyed getting more and more through the story. It was interesting to get to know how the animals plan the rebellion and how the pigs gain power. Furthermore I liked to figure out the parallels to the Russian revolution. The book wants to deliver an important message, but the problem is that the book gets more and more boring. To the end there are no more new ideas. The windmill is builded three times and broke down two times. If the book wouldn't get so boring to the end I could highly recommend it, but if you want to read it completely, you sometimes have trouble to keep your eyes open, nevertheless have a try!
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Summary: Animal Farm by George Orwell
Review: This was an excellent book. The characters Orwell creates using the animals are as close to real as a writer can get. The idealism was amazing it was pefectly related to the Soviet Republic using the pigs. The author also described the problems between the animals and their conflicting views perfectly.The best part of the book was when Snowball is expelled from the farm and Napolean slowly turns the idea of Animalism bad and becomes the dictator of the farm. This is described very well and perfectly shadows the Soviet government plan. One of the most vivid story elements was the theme, the theme Orwell was trying to create is opposition to the Soviet government using animals. The other story element accomplished well by this book was the conflict between the pigs and the other animals of the farm. Orwell writes this conflict as a continuing problem of the pigs being supreme and the other animals having no rights. These story elements and the rest of the book is excellently written by Orwell.
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Summary: One of the greatest classics of all time!!!
Review: What can I say, this is a fabualous book!! George Orwell must have been a genuis. He places a fairy tale shadow over the book and hides in a metaphor to the Russian Revolution. This is truely a great read. I read it in school but I loved it so much I'm going to by my own copy!! I would recommend this book to anyone!! Truely a masterpeice.......
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Summary: A Great Book For anyone, even i get it!!!
Review: Animal Farm tells the tale of Manor Farm, a farm controlled by a heartless man named Mr. Jones who overworks and starves his animals. One night, Major, the old boar, assembles all the animals and presents them with his dream, a dream of freedom from the race of humanity. He gives them visions of a great rebellion; beasts working hand in hand to overthrow men. Shortly after his speech, he passes away and the animals are left with his amazing words. The animals take over the farm and destroy everything that reminds them of Mr. Jones. The pigs, which are the smartest animals on the farm, decide they must take control of the farm and its assets. It is only one step from controlling Animal Farm to controlling all of the animals' lives! Napoleon, the boar, manages to win almost total control of everything and in the end, the animals are no better off with Napoleon than they were with Master Jones. Napoleon and the pigs begin walking! on two legs, dressing in suits, drinking beer, and worst of all, killing other animals that disobey their laws. The original laws forbade most of what Napoleon and the pigs start doing, but he has the Seven Commandments, a set of laws the animals wrote, altered. Pretty soon the slogan four legs good, two legs bad changes to four legs good two legs better and all animals are equal becomes all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others! It sounds fair, doesn't it?
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Summary: Successfully Splendid but Somewhat Sordid Satire
Review: My first thought about reading this book was "Cool, a book written for adults where the animals talk!". It was much more than a fairy tale, though, it was deep, serious, and gave you enough details to draw your own conclusions, without making any conclusions of its own. The book starts out fine and dandy---animals overthrowing their human masters. But certain groups among the animals(the pigs), begin taking over, assuming superiority over the other animals and becoming the very human masters they all despised in the first place. Throughout the book, the pigs twist the law to their own ends, manipulating the ignorant and trusting nature of the other animals. The book offers an interesting peek into what might actually happen if the anarchists had their way, and how even the most "fair" of situations, and "fairest" of people, are fallible, and eventually become corrupt. Though it is a satire against Communism, the events in the book could happen to any government.
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Summary: A Political Satire That Will Never Lose Its Pertinence
Review: Animal Farm is a must-read for anyone who feels that today's political system is nothing more than a self-serving arrangement devised to benefit only those in charge. While this may be the case, after reading Animal Farm, the reader will understand why crying out for change is generally pointless, because of the fact that everyone is innately self-serving, and given the power to help themselves, everyone will do just that. Animal Farm does a very good job of explaining how it is true that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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