Monday, August 16, 2010

Book Review: Animal Farm

The book I read was Animal Farm by George Orwell. In the story, a group of animals take over a farm, with a pig named Snowball leading them. Snowball believed that "All animals are equal" and started teaching the other animals to read. Another pig, Napoleon, took some pups and trained them privately. Snowball announces his ideas of a windmill, but Napoleon sent his dogs to attack him, and Snowball did not appear in the story after that, presumably dead. After Napoleon gained power, he told the animals that Snowball is evil and tried to abuse his power, changing the Seven Commandments of Animalism, to the pigs' benefit. A farmer attacked the farm, and in the process many animals were injured, including Boxer, a horse. Napoleon said he would send him to the vet, but Boxer's friend Benjamin found out that the car Boxer is in is bound to a Horse slaughtering place. Years passed, and the pigs began to look more and behave more like oppressive humans. In the end, the animals can't even differentiate between the pigs and the humans.
My favorite character was Boxer because he was hardworking and I felt that he did not get what he deserved in the end, getting sold by the pigs to the Horse slaughtering place just for the pigs to earn money for whisky.

2 comments:

  1. I just feel that you can paragraph and organise your words better so as to facilitate better reading for the reader. The way your words are arranged now does not really allow the reader to understand your content with ease. But all in all, this review was fine and each and every character is stated clearly in your review. Good job. Just a piece of advice from me to you.

    Jack Tan 1O307

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  2. I feel that the book is very interesting as I can tell that it is action packed and I really like farm animals as i got influenced by my brother and i suggest you can write more about the scene you liked best and the happenings of tjhe story .Thanks

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