Animal Farm in MHSHS Reading Group

Sep 08, 2010 Svitlana rated it it was amazing

Great novel!!!! I loved that it teaches a lesson that there is no such a thing as utopia. Sooner or later thoughts and ideas become corrupt. It was brilliant how the author managed to imply the core principles of communism
upon the animals. This book portrays moral lesson how with great power comes great responsibility. Everyone has to be careful and be able to distinguish whether the government manipulates or really is trying to make the society better. Major themes? Power hungriness, corruption ...more

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Sep 11, 2010 Sanum rated it liked it

I love how this book shows that no matter how perfect a world someone tries to create, there will never be a perfect Utopia. Everyone wont ever be perfect.
I find it funny that the ones that ruled were pigs, when pigs are usually shown as a bad image in society. And it was supposed to be of the Russain Revolution, so it was like the rulers of that time were like pigs. Maybe because of their dirty work?

I loved how they showed all the techniques and competition.

I love how in the book it said, All ...more

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Jan 19, 2009 Maria rated it really liked it

Animal Farm is one of the most interesting book about animals. My best character is snowball(a pig), this book has a great significance in many issues. Firstly the aspect of rebellion for freedom, in which the animals rebel to gain thier freedom. Also an aspect of team work when all animals in animal farm work together for the betterment of themselves. Also an aspect of selfcenterness, selfishness which was found in Naploen, this aspects were very bad.I really like this book becuase when you re ...more

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Sep 09, 2010 Sabrina rated it really liked it

This book was a clear example of Stalinization occuring within the Soviet. Orwell used animals to describe how Stalin tried to modernize and equalize the Soviet Union. He gave examples of Stalin's propaganda and the secret police. I believe Orwell was brillant, when he chose animals to act out and carry out examples of Stalin's version Russia. It was simple and ingenius; he made it possible for any idiot to understand what Stalin was doing in the Soviet Union. George Orwell is a brillant, incred ...more

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Sep 13, 2010 Khalid rated it really liked it

I like this book, Animal Farm by Geroge Orwell because I found it interesting how Geroge connected his story WW2. Reading this book helped me have a better understanding of World War II. And geroge's point of view at the end as comparing humans to the animal is somewhat true.I find that true because how the people during was fighting over land.I would like to reccommend this book to any reader, especially if you are studying World war II. ...more

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Sep 14, 2010 Laura rated it really liked it

Animal Farm was a great book. It was a very well written allegory.The book was about A farm that plays out like the russian revolution. I really liked this book because it was very interesting to read and i never got off topic when i was reading it. I gave this book four stars because the themes were very good and it related great to the Russian Revolution. I reccomend this to anyone who likes to read about the russian revolution or animals.

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Jan 15, 2009 Kyle rated it really liked it

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Sep 14, 2010 Harold rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This book was very good because it was about a historical time as animals in a farm. I loved the plot and how it played through throughtout the book. The antogonist made the book have feeling to it. It has action and towards the end it gets sad.

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Nov 06, 2008 Cynthia rated it really liked it

I absolutely love this book, another book from one of my favorite authors, George Orwell. I love the fact that the events in this book is shown through the perspectives of animals and the reader can really get to understand the animals and how they feel towards the humans and what they are doing on that farm that affects them. George Orwell shows us a world where not everything is fair and what the animals have to go through. This book is a must read!

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Nov 06, 2008 Jacob rated it it was amazing

Animal Farm was one of the craziest books I have read but it was really really good. The book was about farm animals that were split up into two groups and how these to groups of animals create conflict. The animals also go to war during the book and the animals you will learn were impressing humans and these humans were the russian dictators. It was crazy and amazing how they fit these animals in the places of these powerful men. I enjoyed this book very much although there are parts that are b ...more

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Apr 25, 2010 Mandy rated it really liked it

This book is almost completely based on the history of Stalin and USSR. I think it is too over, I think it would be fun if the author twisted the history a little, and make the story a little more fun and impressive.

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Apr 26, 2010 Xing rated it really liked it

Windmill is meaningful figure in this book. Windmill symbolize power, whoever control the windmill would be in charge of the farm. Therefore, windmill represents Animal Farm and it creates a full sense of pride.

Whenever anything happen, animals blame Snowball. They do this on purpose because of fear, they don’t know what to do. They try to blame someone for what is going wrong, so that they can continue to live in the situation.

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Dec 01, 2008 Keith rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I also read Animal Farm in 8th grade. This book were interesting. It was interesting because the animals actualy had personalities ass humans. The ironic thing about the animals is that they hated the humans but thoughout the book they started to act more about them. I reccomend this book to everybody.

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