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Summary: A Parable of Communism's Tragedy
Review: As with all parables, if you ignore the symbolism of this tale, you will miss the entire point. Animal Farm is the story of the Russian Revolution, which started with lofty rhetoric about freedom and equality (as most political revolutions do), but ended with a tyrannical oligarchy wielding the same barbaric control over the masses which the tsars had wielded before the revolution replaced them. In each animal there can be seen a part of society, and the sadness of this story is that the animals who truly attempted to apply the socialist ideals were also too stupid to understand what was going on around them. The exception to this was Snowball, but even he was naive by not realizing the tyranny that was brewing in the self-serving mind of Napoleon. One of the most maddening things in this book was the mindless bleating of the sheep, who by thoughtless repetition of the Party Doctrine could drown out all reason, all intelligent debate, and ultimately, all of the truth about the farm which could have set the animals free.This book is a simple masterpiece, and it's lessons for all societies are timeless.
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Summary: Good book
Review: This book is very good, in depths readying. I thought it was very cleverly done with the whole Soviet Union reflected in to a farm like setting. Before someone reads this, they should know a little about the Soviet Union, communism, Stalin, Lenin, and things like this. It is good for all ages, but younger audience would benefit the most from it. Older people should read '1984' by the same author.
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Summary: THE STUPIDEST BOOK EVER!!!
Review: I do not recommend this book to ANYONE on this earth!! I had to read it for school and it was THE dumbest book I ever had to read. Animals taking over a farm?? Come on how much stupider could you get. None of the animals seemed realistic. This was a poorly writin book and I will tell you again DO NOT READ IT!!! All it is is a waste of your time!!!!
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: animal farm was a decent book i mean i would probably recomend it to some people but not ot all it gets boring at times but all and all it is a good book.
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Summary: Curtis Wakeman, Lawrence, Ks
Review: Imagine that your animals take over your. Farm well that what happened in this book called Animal Farm by George Orwell. Everyone willingly try to pitch in a hand but then suddenly you have been told a to do a different job, and if don't do it the king Napolean will send the dogs after you. That's how it's been ever since the farmer Jones left the farm. Farmer Jones left big white letters on the side of a barn, and then letters became the animal's new seven commandments. And there are as follows: all animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or any animal with four legs or wing is a friend, an animal with two legs is an enemy. Later on, however the pigs who have styled themselves leaders of the farm. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink milk and eat apples." This was one of the many sayings that Napolean would say. There is one character that they nickname him the workhorse but his real name is Boxer, having given his all to his comrades. This book has two points of view. One person can see it as a fairy tale and another could see it as satire of a society in dictatorship. In the beginning an old pig named Major tells a story about a life without any humans, a life were animals are equal and ruled themselves. Major told them about the "Beast of England" a patriotic song that stood for animals' freedom. Later on in the book Major dies, but the words spoken at the rally remain in every animal's head and heart. As I read this Animal Farm I kept thinking about how familiar the story was and I finally figured it out. The story is about a group ruled by a more dominant group and so naturally they rebel to make life better for themselves and to have freedom.
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Summary: Political writing as art.
Review: As a bit of political rhetoric, as a story, and as a stylistic achievement, "Animal Farm" is an Orwell success. Orwell's self-proclaimed goal was to, "make political writing into an art". Did he succeed in "Animal Farm"? Yes. Maybe not in anyway that will take your breath away, but he certainly did far more than simply feed us another dose of political rhetoric. He made us enjoy it. He did an extraordinary job of fitting his agenda into this unusual medium, and making it largely amusing. Stylistically, "Animal Farm" imitates a fairytale, and does it spectacularly well. That isn't to say that it's a thing for children. It's much too dark for that. Orwell writes "Animal Farm" using both extended narrative and long passages of exposition to best advantage. While I dislike both of those things, he can't realistically be criticized for either. He was simply remaining faithful to the mold of a classic Fairytale. The characters are thin to an extreme, but even that can't be considered a fault. Again, he remains faithfully within the bounds of his chosen form. Each character fulfills its role and none of them ever violates the bounds of their purpose. Is "Animal Farm" a perfect story? Maybe not, but it's very well done and deserves every speck of the praise it's received from other reviewers. Is it one of my all time favorites? No. It didn't hold my interest strongly enough. Is it worth the time I spent reading it? Definitely.
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: I think this book is good for peolpe who like Geagraphy,because it talks about an history.people who like geagraphy would like this book because it talk about that caminiseum and it also fun for people who like geagraphy.
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Summary: fascinating story
Review: I had to read this book for my English class. Although I already knew it it was again quite moving, especially the death of Boxer. This book also gives a good view on the reasons of the Revolution in Russia. The only thing I did not like about this book is the end. I think the pigs should have been punished for what they had done.
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Summary: A Fantastic Book
Review: Orwell's Animal Farm is fantastic. Its symbols are easy to pick up and I just couldn't put it down. One of my favorite books.
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Summary: good informational book
Review: when i first heard of this book thought it would very kiddy and kinda stupid, but once i had read two pages of it i knew it was the exact oppisite of what i had thought.the first part set's the mood for the whole story it is basedon the russian revolution. Each character is exactly alike a character in the revolution, for example benjemin the donkey is Joseph Stalin. i strongly encoraged anyone who hasn't read this book to read it and see how dead on correct Mr. orwell was about the revolution. He if you could it this but pridicted the whole revolution exactly how it happend in real life. The scary thing about this is that he predicted the whole thinghow it happended.
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