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Summary: Become an informed citizen
Review: Animal Farm should be read by everyone, even if it is not on your "required reading" list. It's short, less than 150 pages, and it has 10 chapters. Inside, you can find a tale of farm animals and their toils and tribulations as they run their own farm. Sounds nice and cute, huh? Not in the least. First, there is Napoleon and Snowball (pigs), the leaders. However, Napoleon runs Snowball out of the farm using his personal body guard: 9 dogs he has trained to kill. There are mass slaughterings, betrayals, and enough chilling speeches to make you nervous. Napoleon succeeds in brain-washing nearly every animal into believing his every word and obeying his every command. Even if this seems outrageous, consider the fact that it is based on Stalinist Russia. Read this and learn about history, and learn to be informed.
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Summary: Chris Warren on-line review
Review: I thought this book was great. In hte story the animals of the Mason Farm rebel against their owner Mr. Mason. The animals make a set of rules so they are to not become like humans. Soon the pigs of the farm begin rising in power and the rules begin changing to the pigs benifit. Then one day the other animals see a pig standing on his hind legs. After that the animals spy on a party the pigs are having with the humans. They then realize that the pigs are taking over the farm and that they are turnig just like humans themselves.
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Summary: evils of man..
Review: well I think whom ever reads this short book will take from it what they want. I didnt take it very much a as Socialist town(the Farm, which I'm not saying that it wasnt) but inanycase I saw the book on the evils of man. The pigs slowly changed their ways of thinking to better themselves. Just as we do now, and sometimes we as people forget where we came from. In a sense the pigs, became this very being. They improved everything for their ways a living. The reader will think as I did, yes it one goverment over throwing the other with its false statements to polute the minds of the week. And slowly what the animals fought so hard to abloish has reared it ugly head and are they better off than what they started as? Well you tell me..
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Summary: Screw a class, just read this for Russian history
Review: First let me point out that Old Major is not Karl Marx, and Karl Marx did not take part in the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 as another reviewer erroneously reported. Old Major is Vladimir Lenin, whose death sparked a power struggle between Trotsky and Stalin (hopefully we all know how that turned out).
Second, let me say this is a history of Russia on a farm, with animals replacing the people. I'm taking a course on Russian revolutions and I'm seeing how exactly this book's story coincides with the actual events. This could be a textbook for the course if only professors could be more fun.
And third, all I want to say is that I would consider this and 1984 the only two novels that can carry the description "must-read."
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Summary: Timeless Classic :P
Review: I HIGHLY recommend this book to absolutely everybody. I've read Orwell's Animal Farm thrice, and I enjoyed it more and more every time. There is just SO much to get out of this book. The third time I read Animal Farm, it was for sophomore World English, and our test was made of completely random quotes from the book. We had to explain the significance of the quote as it reflects the Russian Revolution. There is so much depth to this book! The first time I read it, I saw the superficial level- story about animals, good, bad, ugly. It was great. Then, as I read it twice and then a third time, I got more out of it than I ever imagined. This is the 2nd best book that came from the 1940's (behind Aldous Huxley's Brave New World).
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Summary: Animal Farm, a must read
Review: The novel Animal Farm is set in England on a farm called Manor Farm, owned by a Mr. Jones. The Novel starts out with Mr. Jones, after a long night of excessive drinking, fails to lock up the farm properly. Old Major, a highly respected wise old pig, takes the chance to call a big meeting for all the animals. He points out that men take all the benefits while the animals, whom were the cause of such profit, are rewarded with just enough to keep from starving. Old Major suggests a rebellion against the human race, which if succeeded, would let animals live in peace and be free from the tyranny of men. Three days later, Old Major dies and two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, emerged as leaders of the animals, made sure that Old Major¡¦s revolutionary dream stayed alive. The revolution was successful as Snowball and Napoleon then introduce to the animals the seven commandments of ¡§animalism¡¨:
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill another animal.
7. All animals are created equal.
For a while, all the animals could feel that life has improved. However, things take on a dramatic change when Napoleon starts to contradict the animalism constitutions set at the very beginning including killing one of his fellow farm animal for attempting to revolt against him, or so he claims. Before anyone could say anything, numbers 4-6 on the animalism constitutions were changed to: 4.) No animal shall sleep in bed with sheets
5.) No animal shall drink alcohol excessively
6.) No animal shall kill another animal without cause As the years pass, the pigs have now all moved into the farmhouse where Mr. Jones once lived. The last constitution was soon changed to ¡§All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others¡¨. The utopian government the animals were wishing for has turned into a totalitarian dictatorship rule. This book, published in 1956, was a satire towards Stalinist Russia, but using animals as its characters. The book can be seen as a fable, wonderfully written mocking the communist regimes at the time period. The novel also hides the horrific scenes of communist regimes and illustrates what Russia went through without being too direct. Russia, from a revolution against tyranny to a dictatorship just as terrible, is what George Orwell is trying to convey to his readers. The meaning and message of Orwell in this novel is clear and is no doubt ¡§The most telling satiric fables ever penned¡¨ as New York Times states.
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Summary: Wasn't what I expected
Review: This book was kind of boring. It really didn't get into it. I was hoping for a little bit better book. I would maybe recomend this book to someone younger, between the ages of 8 and 12. Maybe someone else can get into this book more but I didn't like it personally.
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Summary: A pure classic
Review: Thi i on of the greatest books I have ever read! my English teacher really had good taste in books. This book is one of best pieces of literature Orwell has ever written. Oh, and to the inbred idiots who gave this a bad review, this book is not actually about animals taking over a farm! The bbok is really about the history of Soviet Russia! The book is supposed show that Communism never works, because the leaders are always becoming corrupt! YOU DUMBASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: It is a nice book to read
Review: There is a farm called Manor farm. On that farm there is a guy called Mr.Jones. One night he for got to feed the aniamls.The animals kicked down the fence and drove the humans out. The animals are now working as humans. The animals on the Manor farm did not like each other. They always had a commander on the farm as a leader to lead them. The pig were first to lead them. Then Napoleon anther pig would be able to take to the humans. I would tell you that Animal farm is a great book if you like to read about farm animals. Their job in the book is like it is on a farm. The horses work to pull equipment and the cows give the milk. The animals can be like humans. There wasn't much about the book I didn't like. It is not really like any other book I've read recently.
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: I can guarantee that there a plenty of other reviews that explain the setting of this novel, so I will simply say this: Animal Farm is one of my favorite books and, I'm sure many would agree with me, is one of the greatest classics ever published. I believe everyone should read this book and, quite frankly, it would be ridiculous not to do so.
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