AniFarm

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The book Animal Farm was written by George Orwell. It is a political satire written to parallel communist Russia. Every event and character in the book has a parallel in history to the events and characters that make up the communist revolution. Characters in the book such as Old Major and Napoleon, parallel leaders like Lenin and Stalin. The book, like the communist revolution, contained many good and bad examples of leadership.

Animal Farm takes place on a small fictional farm in England called "Manor Farm." The animals on the farm include, dogs, a cat, ducks, pigs, horses, a donkey, and even field mice, pigeons, and a crow. On the farm the animals are hard working and severely mistreated. Clearly representing the working class, the animals of the farm are unappreciated and un-rewarded for their hard work by the human owners of the farm. The humans parallel the Russian monarchy. Lead by farmer Jones, who was a poor manager of his farm much like Czar Nicholas was a poor leader, the humans mistreat the animals.

After being mistreated for some time one of the animals takes the first step toward change. An old pig called Old Major has a dream and tells all the animals about it. His dream was of the animals running t

Once Napoleon had driven Snowball from the farm he gets worse. Napoleon completely forgets about the welfare of his fellow animals. He ignores his responsibilities as a leader and focuses on himself and just maintaining his power on the farm. Napoleon breaks all of his own rules and becomes just like his enemy the humans.

By the end of the book Napoleon associates with a local farmer, Mr. Pilkington, and even reinstates the name of the farm from "Animal Farm" back to "Manor Farm." The book ends with all the animals gazing in at their leaders, the pigs, and their sworn enemies, the humans, eating and laughing together. While they stare the animals notice no difference between the two species.

However, Animal Farm was not just a book about communism. It was a book about leadership. It was a book that illustrated both outstanding and poor leadership. Though there were not many, there were some instances where the leaders in this book preformed well. In the beginning, when Snowball and Napoleon were not arguing with each other they were leading very well. A good example of this is right after the animals gain power. Immediately after the revolution takes place the animals are so happy they don't know what to do. Napoleon right away exhibits leadership qualities by making decisions for the other animals. "Napoleon then led them back to the store-shed and served out a double ration of corn to everybody" (page 40).

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Approximate Word count = 1091
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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