Average. This book was OK, but I wouldn't read it twice.

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	• Animal Farm George Orwell 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2004 - 113 pages average customer review:based on 1233 reviews view larger image
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It's All About Boiling a Frog

Orwell shows the incrimental rise of tyrrany among barnyard animals. That's really what is at the heart of this book: the slow methodical creep of ever more constrictive, exploitive, and oppressive laws which transform a free society to a totalitarian dictatorship. Each step is slowly introduced, and introduced to the public in a calm and well-reasoned manner. If done skillfully, no individual step will incite the public to stand up and oppose the overarching plan to enslave them. Joesph Stalin came to power around 1922-26, depending on the criterion applied, but it took him another 10 years to really cement together his ironclad dictatorship. So it is with Napolean the Pig, who becomes the barnyard leader with the slogan "All animals are created equal", and only later quietly adds "...but some animals are more equal than others." The book unfolds in baby steps, slowly constructing a regime no better (indeed far worse) than the one it replaced. Once he removes the Farmer, Napolean purges potential rivals (e.g. the popular and beloved horse), trains a private army of attack dogs answerable only to him, and starts to set himself apart in a seperate and superior class from the other animals by walking upright like the Farmer did

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Nobody liked this book in our school, but me

Everyone complaigned how this book was stupid, and how its just about stupid animals who break each others laws. I actually understood the literal meaning and symbols of the book, and am also a huge world war 2 fan. I've always had an interest in the dictatorships and communist countries of Europe during the war, and this book taught me something I never knew. Communism started off as a huge breakthrough for equal rights and trying to keep everyone under control in a fair way, and everyone gave in becuase it seemed like the perfect society where nobody would be enemies and everyone would be able to have the same benefits. Communism worked well at first, and everyone seemed happy, but as time progressed, the government twisted its laws and made the people like slaves, where they were manipulated and controlled by the governments actions. People who weren't able to benefit everyone else were executed, the dictator made alliances with their so called "enemies", and went against everything they fought for in the first place. This is all seen in the novel, and teaches america why communism fails and why there can never be a such thing as everyone is equal, but more as everyone is equal, but some people are more equal than others. Orswell understood communism, and nailed everything down perfectly in this clever book.

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A blazing fast and memorable read

Take something like Charlottes Web and blend it with the Russian Revolution, shake it up a bit and you have Animal Farm.

Animal Farm is a satirical look at totalitarianism, complete government control. The animals are sick of the humans controlling them. They are underfed and caged up and just generally mistreated. The animals decide to start a revolution and they successfully drive the humans away. The pigs are known as the intellectuals so they quickly become the leaders of the animals, Napoleon the bore being the one in charge. With the pigs in charge how much will life really improve?

Orwell's prose in this book is absolutely flawless. The scenes really jump out of the pages. Right in the beginning Orwell drops quite a large cast of characters for such a quick read but he fleshes them out so perfectly (and succinctly) that you won't become lost.

This is a blazing fast read! Orwell doesn't waste a single word. This is a very memorable book. I can't imagine giving it anything less than 5 stars.

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Required Reading

Animal Farm is a great read, and should be require for all children in secondary school. When paired with the proper historical lessons (the Russian revolution, purges, and to some extent World War II) it is very entertaining and could serve as a powerful reinforcement.

Average. This book was OK, but I wouldn't read it twice.

This book was quite different from George Orwell's 1984 (Max Notes), the only other of Orwell's works that I have read. The allusions to communism are obvious and character development was sacrificed in favour of narrative. As a study of historical narrative, this book is important. As an enjoyable book to read, Animal Farm: A Fairy Story falls short of the mark.

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