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Summary: Animal Farm Review
Review: For my reading class I chose to read Animal Farm. The book is about a group of farm animals who take over Farm and over throw Jones the trayant farmer. Led by the pigs, the animals shun humanity and begin their own way of life. However, in time the pigs begin to obtain a power trip. They seem to establish a true dictatorship and as time goes on they become more like the race that they so despise.George Orwell sends a very clear message in this book. The message is that power brings out the pigs in us. This book is very true for almost any society today. Animal Farm is a very enjoyable, easy read. If you are looking for a book with a Deep meaning than Animal Farm is for you.
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: I read this as a school asignment and I did not enjoy it. I did not really understand the meaning of the book. I guess it aplied to the world a while ago but I can't aply it to life today. It was rather confusing for me.
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Summary: Animals Come to Power
Review: This is an allegory based on the early years of life and politics of the Soviet Union. But it can be viewed as a general warning against polemical and all-too-optimistic utopian visions. I grew up in the Soviet Union, and I think Orwell was somehow able to capture the spirit of life there as precisely as a writer can.Led by their liberators, the pigs, oppressed and over-worked animals take matters into their own hands and expell their human masters. What follows is funny, at times, and tragic in general. This short and beautiful book is a must read.
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Summary: A poor man's 1984 or intro to Orwell for kids...
Review: What happens when farm animals invoke the sickle-and-hammer? This fairy tale tells you. It illustrates the horrors and seductions of collectivism, only it does so with farm animals.
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Summary: Utopias are never perfect
Review: This book is one of the greatest satire of all time, one of the motivating factors in the awareness of Communism's evil. Through his brilliant use of animals as in olden fables, Orwell holds a mirror to the state of humanity. Great book.
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Summary: A beautiful Fairy Tale about the truth of Communism
Review: Reading the below reviews, I guess every reader gets a glimpse of this book. This dark book is short and reminds me of "Lord of the Flies" in the sense that each individual character represents some class of characteristic or person/ place or thing. Plus both books show the start of something good, something beautiful that turns awry. The book is simple yet very complexed. I do not recommend this book (or the movie for that matter) to children younger then ten or eleven. It is brutal and dark, but its truth shines through.
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Summary: Historical and political satire you can read to your kids!
Review: People often wonder how they can teach their kids tough concepts, and hopefully, they'll gorow to understand them. Here's a good example of an answer to that. Orwell pokes at the Russian revolution with a nimble fork, setting it as a fairy tale of animals that talk. The final sentence is an incredible line, one that a million authors wishes will spring from their pen on the right moment.
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Summary: Example of Recurring Abuse in Society- A Masterpiece
Review: This book is an animalian illustration of how humanity time and again uses power for evil. Animal Farm is an important contradiction in itself because it shows how superiority and mental capacity on a higher evolutionary level is not necessarily a qualification for supremacy. This book is a screenplay that is unfortunately and inveitably replayed everyday and the nations of this world are the stages. Not necessarily a masterpiece, this book is a truthful guide into the faults of humanity. The irony: it takes a group of beasts to guide us.
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Summary: A Beautiful Philosophy
Review: At first glance, this book is a cool story about animals who rebel against the farmer... but looking deeper it parallels the Russian Revolution, and tells a lot about Communism. As with 1984, It is another 'down with big brother' book, but with a completely different flavour. It is truly a remarkable book - one that you can read two or three times in a day, and you should. I found many new things when I reread the book... and each time I do, it becomes more intreging. Absolutely everyone should read this book!
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Summary: Funny and disturbing
Review: Amazing how a bunch of pigs and farm animals can completely resemble human beings, societies and politicians-followers. Orwell's sweet n' simple story is anything but, and tells the tale of Utopia-gone-wrong, is like a twisted fairy tale unhappily ever after. Nevertheless, the book is hilarious and though dark, it makes you think and be thankful/critical to live in the society that we do, with and without it's flaws.
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