Book Report on Animal Farm
Many authors write about topics that they know and about historical events that are going on while they write their story. In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell this is definitely true. Orwell modeled many of his characters after Russian leaders. He ingeniously depicts the troubles of Russia in a book about farm animals. The story begins with a prize winning boar named Old Major, he gathers all of the farm animals around to tell them of a dream that he has. He tells them about a society of only farm animals, they would run everything with out humans. The farm animals like this idea and make a song called "Beasts of England" about their new freedom. Three days after announcing his dream, Old Major dies. Two younger pigs,Snowball and Napoleon, put Old Major's ideas into a philosophy and call it Animalism. The animals chase Farmer Jones off of the farm and claim it as their own, calling it "Animal Farm". Everyone works together to bring happiness to the farm. Boxer the cart-horse devotes all of his strength to the farm, Snowball teaches the animals to read, and Napoleon educates a group of puppies on the topic of Animalism. Soon there is a struggle for power between Snowball and Napoleon. Snowball wants to erect a windmill
George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. He was born in 1903 and died in 1950. He served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. When Orwell resigned from his position in Burma, he resolved to speak out against the domination of any person over another. During World War 2, he was war correspondent for the BBC and the Observer, and wrote for the Tribune. His condemnation of totalitarian society and his intellectual honesty motivated his biting satire of Communist ideology in Animal Farm written in 1945, and in the novel Nineteen Eighty-four written in 1949. to produce power for the animals. Napoleon is opposed to this idea and sends attack dogs to chase Snowball out of town. Now Napoleon has all power and begins to run the farm like he wants it. He decides that the pigs will run the farm, he also changes his mind about the windmill. They finally build it, but the next day they find it toppled onto the ground. Napoleon tells everyone that Snowball toppled the windmill. So anyone that goes against the words of Napoleon would then be with Snowball and would be put to death by the dogs. Napoleon starts to act more like a human, sleeping in a bed, wearing clothing, drinking whiskey, walking upright, and he even engages in trades with the neighbors. The farm animals are now cold, h
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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