The book I read was animal farm by George Orwell, also known
as Eric Blair. He has published other works such as 1984, Coming up for air,
and homage to Catalina. I would say this book is a tie for the best/most
popular with 1984 because that is his best known work, but I personally thought
animal farm was interesting because it symbolizes how the government of Russia
molded pre- World War 2. The theme of this book is, when you cheat to get what
you want, it will all come tumbling down.
The book takes place on manor farm filled with animals who
are gathered into the big barn by old major. who Then convinced the animals to
overtake the farm from Mr. Jones. Old Major soon dies and leaves the farm in the hands of Snowball
and Napoleon. Napoleon chases snowball out of the farm and takes control over
it himself with the use of ruthless tactics such as his trained attack dogs.
Eventually Napoleon extorts the parts of the farm and kills some of the animals
who oppose him and the pigs who were the 'elite' group of the animals start to
walk on two feet and be like humans even though when they all got it started
they had learned that they should die before being at all like one.
I would recommend this book to any intelligent person who
can make the connection to the historical past because it adds another
dimension to your thinking while your reading the book and overall enhances the
liking of the read.
Book Review by Ryan D.
This is a good book I have read it before and liked it a lot because of all the odd little things that are put in it like how the pigs are used to represent the communist party. Another thing that stood out to me was how the animals build a windmill and it starts out with every animal helping but slowly the pigs just stop helping and start to just sit back and do nothing except drink beer and eat human food. I loved reading this book I would definitely read it again and strongly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it because it's a good read.
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