George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Animals planned to rebel, and then take action. Winning the farm over was great for the animals, but then things got complicated. Leaders were chosen, Napoleon, a boar, being the head leader. The animals worked together on several projects such as building a windmill to make their work easier. Animals died working, and times got rough for the animals. In the end they decided to keep pushing through, continuing to work hard and looking forward to a better, new life. Reading this book was hard, because it wasn’t very interesting. Focusing on what was happening seemed difficult because it went from problem to problem. It was like it was never going to end. This story had too much detail and would be recommended for a younger age. In Animal Farm …show more content…

there are many conflicts. The animals fought with each other, such as Napoleon and Snowball disagreeing with each other and fighting to be the leader. Or there was the conflict with the other farms and Mr. Jones. He tried to recapture his land, but the animals didn’t allow that and it resulted badly for him. Then, there was the problem with the windmill and the animals. They worked so hard just for it to be broken two times. An animal even died by pushing himself too hard to get the work done. The one conflict that was made into even smaller conflicts was the pigs being so controlling. The pigs would walk around like they are the best and it would upset the other animals. This conflict occurred more than once, and became to be too much. “And the news soon leaked out that every pig was now receiving a ration of a pint of beer daily…” (Orwell 107). This shows the pigs getting more than every animal and that made them unhappy. Some of these points could have been taken out because they all point back to the same meaning, the pigs rule. There was so many conflicts within the story it was just too hard to focus on the book. It went from thing to thing to thing and after awhile it became boring. Sure, conflicts are what make up a story, but it was too much. Another problem this book had was that it seemed like it wasn’t going to end. It dragged on and on. Then when the ending came it didn’t seem like anything got resolved it just ended with the animals living there on the farm, still struggling having conflicts yet they were looking forward to a new life. On page 128 is the end in which the story concluded with naming it the Manor Farm. After reading the story for it to end like that was a setback. The whole story had so many different things in it, yet most of the big things were resolved before the story ended. So the ending was just something else added on to the book and it didn’t seem right. Instead of just ending the story buy the animals still living freely, the writer should have put a twist on it. Having humans coming to invade the farm, or the leader getting hurt or even him dying. That would have made the ending more intense and interesting. The biggest issue the book had was that it was so unreal, it was hard to take it seriously.

Sure animals trying to take over a farm is nonfiction, but the way that humans outside dealt with that made no sense. When Mr. Jones came back to claim his farm, the book began to make sense, but then Mr. Jones was not able to fight off the animals. He didn’t even try again to get the farm back. Then, the pigs were able to read so they could talk with the humans. Putting that in the story is fine, but it lacked the fact of what humans felt and what they wanted to do with that. The author may have put that in the story for readers to make the connection of the animals to the humans, but it didn’t help much. The intention of the author was probably to just focus on the animals and their troubles due to the story being about them taking over the farm. Although that was the intention, humans were left more distant from the story, which made it less interesting and real. Humans were not just the problem with being too unrealistic though. The problems the animals faced seemed like problems that they would have, but may have been worse than what they were made out to be. With building the windmill (which would have been nearly impossible for any animal), they were able to start over and fix the windmill fairly fast. That was one of the things that made the story drag. If there would have been more of a problem to each conflict, it would not have dragged as

much. Really, the audience of this book would be more for elementary or young middle middle school students. They would have enjoyed it more, because they would be able to have more imagination with it. Even though it is a chapter book, the way the story was set up kids would have enjoyed it more. Especially when the animals start to do humane things. Overall, this book was a boring book. It dragged on and had too many conflicts that got resolved before the end. Younger aged kids would enjoy this book more than high schoolers. Reading it was difficult because it dragged on and didn’t seem like it was going to end.

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