Jorik
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
My name is Jorik, I'm from Holland and I'm in the 10th grade. I read Animal Farm for my first English essay this year.<br>How Orwell took the first years of Communism and made something so hilarious but yet so beautiful is anyones guess. The caracthers, based on real people or not, have a very vivid personality and no event in this book sounds too surreal. It is not a very long book, yet it says more than any 500+ page book. The Battle between Trotski and Stalin who were transformed into Snowball and Napoleon is made understandable for everyone. Napoleon, the Stalin-figure, copies his human predecessor perfectly. His lies and fraud, brought to the other animals by Squealer, are just as harsh and convincing as Stalin's; the other animals simply don't know! Also the destroying of the seven commandments is very recognisable.<br>I could go on for ours but I just want to tell everyone reading this that you all should read this book!!!!! (how strange, I'm beginning to sound like Napoleon after all....)