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Summary: A brilliant satiracal masterpiece
Review: After reading the supurbly written, thought-provoking vision, 1984, I went on to read Orwell's novel, Animal Farm. It was quite different from other serious social commentary books, in that it was so simply written. It was to the point, and told a story with a powerful message that we should all listen to. Orwell proves once again that he's one of the most brilliant, talented writers to come along in a long time.
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Summary: Fasinating Book
Review: I just finished reading the novel Animal Farm in my Seventh Grade Lititure class. I found it to be quite intersting and realistic. It shows in a different point of the whole Russian Reveloution. IT is a wonderful book
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Summary: Allegorically fable of the reality of Communism and Facism
Review: Animal Farm by George Orwell was an interesting allegory of the philosiphy and consequences of revolution and Communism. The Utopian ideas of old Major are presented to a fickle assemble of a wide range of intelligence and interpretations. They all willingly take to heart the dying words of the symbolic equvilent of Karl Marx. Maxims and songs are created to instill the beliefs into the animals. Then, the are set free of their tyrannical human and set "free" as the dead pig had prophesized. In truth, the were still bound by their economical needs and eventually themselves.Leadership plays a key role in this politically jaged fable. The pigs were always the smartest and most literate. Therefore, it was "only natural" for them to take charge. They abused the mild amount of control given to them and proved the maxim of absolute power corrupting absolutely. With no one to despute the pigs drew more and more power. It was an excellent book. Adressed as a fable written for adults, the book excelled far surpassed my expectations. If you want to find out what happens to the ruling class of the pigs and how the rest of the fickle farm handles this, you should read this short book.
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Summary: I rate it as one of the top 2 books I have EVER read.
Review: This book is a MUST for every political science major to every psychology major in our universities. I have read this book once a year for the last 12 years and it still astounds me at the depth of the writing. This book is wonderful on so many different plains.
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Summary: Another great Orwell book.
Review: George Orwell has done it again writing another good book after I just read 1984.
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Summary: Realistic and imaginative
Review: The book itself is imaginative and suspenseful, containing violence and hatred with a hopeful feeling. It is also amazingly realistic. Using animals does not dampen this effect at all. It may well strengthen it by indicating this situation could happen anywhere... The slightly unrealistic feeling in this use of animals also shows how humans can ignore such horrific behavoir simply because they cannot believe anyone or anything is capable of such crimes. (Referring to the person who disproved the idea that life under Snowball would have been better) Saying that anyone with the power given to Napoleon would lead to disaster is an over generalization (WAY over). For example, China was ruled under a very select few for long periods of its history and not all of its emperors were tyrannical monsters. The book is cute story about animals at one level and a splendid satire at another. Both levels are amusing ways to read the book.
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Summary: An interesting commentary on people
Review: Animal Farm, by Orwell, shows the reading public, in my opinion, something much deeper than an open critique of communism, or the such. I feel Orwell wanted to tell us basically that we are fools for sweet talk, and that our friends, or in this case, the pigs, are "always right", just like Boxer was continually repeating. Orwell showed us how weak we are, and let governments, whatever it might be, trample over us until we realize it and we can't do anything about it. Though, we might think it critiques communism, in my direct opinion, it critiques a totalitarian state, a military state, a state by which we live under, like the reprocussions of our very own country, also. Animal Farm is well written book, a book which teaches even children what life is really like, through the use of this adult fiction.
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Summary: the book shows that power does corrupt
Review: the first time i read the book, it was for fun, i didn't think about how it could have related to a real event. the second time i read it, it was for my 8th grade teacher this year, and i finally realized that the story wasn't made up with a really good plot line, i knew that the events had really occoured and that Orwell had used farm anaimals to represent real people. this, i thought, was very clever and a good way to teach young people russan history, let them read the story and when they have finnished it, tell them that it had really happened. They should try and point out who the animals represent and why they were needed for the story to take place. Snowball, the clean innosent one was a good name for someone who really wanted to help. Napolian was a name for the strong milatary type. and the name boxer conveyed sheer strength to the readers.
all and all, i think a lot of this book and if you have a chance, try and read it, then look up what really happened. it's facinating
Julie S. age 14
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Summary: cool book
Review: my mom took me to buy this book cause i saw tom reading it and i wanted it real bad.it had funny animals inside,but i didnt understand a lot of parts in this book.mom said "you are to young to read it"i said no!!!i can read it if tom can.anyways,i read it and i liked all the smart pigs and the animals.i didnt like the mean farmer,he reminded me of my grandpa,hes mean too.he makes scarey faces to try to make me laugh!but i dont like them faces at all!!!dad took me to a cool movie inbetween the time i read a lot,so it took me a long time to finish this really neat book.so i guess i just said what i think!its a real neat book!tom finished it all before me and told me i read very slow but thats not true!hes too smart,he gets all a's and i only get all a's and b's.ill try to get all a's sometimes cause everyone says i have to,but i dont think i can cause its hard to do that.anyway go buy this book just like i did and read all of it.remeber! read it SOON!!!!!
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Summary: Best book ever
Review: not only does this book portray the growing power of politicians and national leaders but it also a symbol of the darkness of the greed that is part of mankind.
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