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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: Animal Farm was a very interesting book. It was about a bunch of animals managing a farm on their own with any outside help. They got tired of their lazy drunken farmer and had a rebellion and kicked him off the farm. It was a very good book and I liked it because it was almost like real. I could just picture farm animals living and working on their own. It was just like they were real people. George Orwell did a great job giving the animals character and personality. It almost seemed that they were alive. If you like fantasy I suggest you read this book.
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Summary: Corrupted By Selfishness
Review: Animal Farm is a true story of the causes and effects of war, not only does it express true meaning but the story had a fictional twist, that makes the book all the more interesting to read. This book has knowledgable message, being that too much power is what the problem really is. Animals rebelled against man because of his selfishness for power and wealth, as it turns out, power does not destroy, only among men, but to those who try to grasp it. this book is exciting because there are some suprising twists. when you read this book you will feel victory, sadness, remorse and anger, and this book is strongly recommended.
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Summary: A Modern Fable
Review: My most common critique when reading literature is that the characters are not real. Very few writers have an ability to accurately portray human bahvior as it really is and not how we wish it to be. It's ironic that George Orwell managed to nail down human nature exactly in a book about farm animals.In Animal Farm, the animals have rebelled against their oppressive human master. They set themselves up in a collectivist effort to ensure that all animals are cared for and that none go wanting. It is to be utopia in animal mind. Everything goes swimmingly at first. All work is done with zeal and energy, productivity is up, and there is enough food for everyone so that all enjoy the fruits of the collective's labor. Very soon though, human nature takes over and there are invariably those who's talents lead them above the others. The pigs, being the smartest of farm animals, set themselves up as the knowledge workers of the collective. It becomes their job to think for the others and to plan how the others must labor for the collective good. They of course share in the fruits of this labor since all workers must enjoy equality in outcome even if they do not share equally in physical input. Sound familiar? Of course it does. This is the Soviet Union in action. As a disillusioned ex-communist, Orwell knew the outcome of the communist system long before most other westerners even knew anything about it. He knew this because he knew that human nature would not allow for the existence of a utopia, worker or otherwise. Animal Farm is a fable; but, it is a fable for modern times. It is a fable for anyone who thinks that human beings can be dictated to by other humans without inequities blossoming between the people. There are no perfect systems and there are no perfect ways to order society. Communism failed like most other command structures because it failed to recognize human nature wouldn't allow itself to remain in such an egalitarian system for long. Inequality is a basic principle of human relations. Animal Farm is one of those rare books that shows this in all its benefits and tragedies.
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Summary: Long Live Animal Farm
Review: Animal Farm is an interesting fable by George Orwell. It is in contrast with the Russian Revolution, and you smile at the way Orwell combines the historic event into his piece of literature. The characters are endering and dim-witted, and we like this about them. The fact that they are confused and helpless, but determined nonetheless makes the novel go off. The end is a little bit of a let down, but it brings into percpective what Orwell is trying to prove. The pigs have becomes the thing which all the animals had feared all along. Along the way of their transformation, we are entertained and amused.
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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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