Martha ’s Reviews > Animal Farm > Status Update

I last read Animal Farm in 2012, but did not “get it”. The current political atmosphere has awakened me to understand its significance. Reading the preface about George Orwell and his encounter with Communism during the Spanish Civil War is very enlightening. For Whom the Bell Tolls-Hemingway-they both fought on the same side- Against Communism.

Mmm- The most faithful disciples: Boxer and Clover. These two had great difficulty in thinking anything out for themselves but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers they absorbed everything that they were told and passed it onto the other animals by simple arguments ."