Blog 10
Uncharted Books
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
Animal Farm is a popular book that is read in schools normally, my mom read it when she was in high school. For some reason though I was never assigned to read Animal Farm while in high school, so I decided to pick it up and give it a go. I ended up finishing the book in less than a day, I liked it that much. I think reading it now with a bit of an understanding of life, society and government the main themes shown through a bit more than they would have when I was younger.
The author beautifully portrays the way a revolution is started to stop what is happening and going full circle comes to the same point it started from. Just the face of power is changed. This book tells how the ruling class makes fool of the working class, uses their energies and resources for their own pleasure. What happens behind the closed doors of power. How the working class is being brain washed that they are happy and satisfied and free despite of the obvious slavery they have been undergoing.
As it is already a very popular book read in schools, I would continue on with the trend because it is an impactful story. Although the characters are animals, the hold so much humanity that is easily stripped away by their peers and don’t even understand what is happening to them. I think if I were to do a bit more research into communist ideology and even Orwell that I would learn a lot more about the book.
