Animal Farm

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.” – George Orwell, Animal Farm.

The book "Animal Farm" by George Orwell should be allowed in the MS51 library. The subject of this book has something very intriguing about it. Which is the part, that's incredibly obvious, the animals take over the farm.

Before I read this and a few other books I wasn't a very fascinated reader. Pretty much all the books I read were just dull and boring. I couldn't ever focus on them because they were all about kids facing sports troubles and all the stuff. If you know me, I'm now much of a very sporty person. Though, George Orwell's Animal Farm was one of the first books I'd read to change my reading habits by a lot. Since, my dad's from England he told me about his favorite book, Animal Farm. He told me that it's about English society in the mid 1940's aswell. I had opened this book and was immediately interested. As soon as I had finished the book I had figured out what my dad meant. The "animals" were the poor English people of the mid 1940's and the "farmers" were the rich people, law makers and royalty back then. Soon after I figured this out, I thought that if the "farmers" keep abusing the "animals," then the "animals" will take over. I've never read something so brilliant (besides "The Catcher in the Rye"). George Orwell finally found a perfect way to comment on the way England was back in the mid 1940's.

My personal thought is, "if George Orwell didn't think of the Animal Farm idea that we know of today, yet he still wanted to find a sort-of outlet on English society, what else would he use to represent it?" I don't understand at all why this book is band. It doesn't teach kids anything bad. I mean if anything, I guess it would maybe be kids taking over something, but we're not strong and big enough for that. And that's the only bad thing I could get from it. I mean there's a bit of abuse in it. But that's life, and life isn't perfect, that's just the way it is. And also it's a metaphor, no animals really got harmed in the making of this book. No doubt I would recommend this book for 6th graders nearing 7th grade and up, or just anyone who's fit to the challenge of this book, and is a dedicated reader.