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Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organised to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges..
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I never read this in school and I've always wanted to. There is definite value in the meaning of this book. I couldn't help but thinking, “Why don't the animals see that the pigs are lying to them? How are they trusting the few pigs over all of their suspicions that the commandments used to be different?” And then I wondered about all the instances where we might do this in our society. It's also a little disheartening to think about the letdown of a failed rebellion that puts you right where you started.
I haven't read this book since I was in middle school. It more than lived up to what I remembered.
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