Animal Farm

28/10/2012

Animal Farm 

(Kar) The book I read is “Animal Farm”, published by Martin Secker and Warburg, written by George Orwell. It is a book of 134 pages. It took me about 2 weeks to finish reading it. 

Aiming to write this book, the author wants to make people aware of the truth about communism and dictatorships. He tells us the reality life of the workers and peasants in Russia in the early nineteenth century, which they live under a tyrannical government and their living is very hard. Secondly, the writer intends to find a way of telling the story to readers who are easy enough to understand, so he writes animals for the main characters. As he writes the story of an animal rebellion led by some pigs on a farm, which it reveals the truth about communism, Therefore, this story is about animal farm.

 

There are some of the main characters such as old Major, Napoleon and Snowball and so on. They represent important figures in the story of the Russian revolution and its aftermath. 

I like the character of a horse, Boxer represents a type of workers. He always performs his duty faithfully and he is the hardest on the farm. 

I don’t like some of the characters both pigs of Napoleon and Squealer. The former is a leader of the Animal Farm. He is selfish, unscrupulous and cruel. Squealer is cunning and he often lies, tells half-truths, brainwashes the animals and rewrites the commandments.  

The beginning of the story, a pig, Old Major gathers other animals of Manor Farm for making his speech. He expresses a message of the Rebellion and to ask them listening to him until to get success. Fortunately, it is an opportunity for animals to overthrow Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm. Afterward, replacing MANOR FARM by ANIMAL FARM, they create an ideal plan allowing them to share in their new administration of Animal Farm. They are free and to satisfy their living at the first few decades of the Rebellion. However, the perfect management style of animalism is ruined by Comrade Napoleon. At the end of the story, it tells us the betrayal of these ideals and the replacement of one tyranny by another. 

I recommend this book to teachers, parents and students as it is not only meaningful but also good for teachers to discuss with their students. Teachers can teach them that they should have a principle of justice to others and to have the right attitude towards facing whatever matters which are unfair and irregular. Besides, in many ways, we can see many matters of brainwashing happen on Animal Farm. It is similar to recent a heat topic of the Moral and National Education Curriculum which made a huge noisy in society. Parents are so worried that their children will be brainwashed by this curriculum. On the other hand, it is a good time for parents to share with their kids about their experience or views on this story, to encourage them to express their viewpoints and to suggest them finding some related information to know the truth about history. Is it a good chance for them to develop parent-child relationship?