Animal Farm by George Orwell was the third and final book I read this wonderful summer! This book was not exactly fit to my taste so I found it hard to be enjoyable. I found this book under the Recommended for You list on my kindle. At first I thought it was a little kids book based off the title (I mean who wouldn't think that), but I searched it and figured out it was actually an appropriate reading level so this would my choice book. I'm usually a fiction reader so this book would be good for me, and there was a whole lot of make believe in this book. This book was not really what I expected it to be. First of all, the animals in the book can talk and are not as dumb as real animals. Secondly, the animals hate humans and go on a rebellion against them just because they think the humans are taking an advantage of them. What I'm basically trying to say is that there was quite a bit of conflict in the book not only between the animals and human, but also between their own group of animals.
Let's just think about if this book could be realistic, I think not. We would probably be living in an alternate universe if talking animals (besides parrots) were real. However, at the same time even if animals can't talk they can rebel. Of course they wouldn't have a thought out plan on how to push away humans, but they can do the little things like misbehave and run away. It's not so much of a rebellion but we could still get the idea. Also in the book many of the animals learn how to read and some even learn how to write. I know for a fact that a chicken couldn't learn to read in real life but at the same (as I said in the previous blog) technology is advancing so much. Maybe there could be a time in the future where scientists come up with a vaccine that allows animals to become literate or intelligent. Maybe that is just my imagination going wild but who knows. I guess that is the cool part with this book, it gets you to wondering if the events in this book could relate to you or ever happen.
At first I didn't know that Animal Farm had to do with communism. I researched and figured out it had to do with the Soviet Union. George Orwell wrote this book in 1945 which this whole conflict involving Joseph Stalin was happening. I guess you could say this book had a hidden message. He worked the aspects of Stalin and other leaders into this story about animals. For example, one of the pigs, Napoleon, was pretty much a tyrant making all the animals know that he was in charge. Another pig, Snowball, could be considered as Napoleon's rival or target. While researching I figured that the characters Napoleon and Snowball were based off of Stalin and Leon Trotsky who was a Communist theorist. I found it very neat that Orwell was able to get his point across in a hidden and secret way. He was probably a creative man by taking this real world situation into a story of talking animals.
I would rate this book 3 stars. At first I didn't care for it but after figuring out the real message behind the book it changed my views on it. Bye!
- Minha
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