Animal Farm

Animal Farm by George Orwell was incredibly boring. However, at the end of the book I was rewarded by making so many connections to today's political problems even though it was a book set in 1940. Being someone who is interested in dictatorship and I found it interesting that George Orwell portrayed a government with farm animals as the main citizens. The parts that I didn't understand a whole lot was why he included the part about Molly and her bows, and why the windmill was important. Although, I thought it was really cool how at the end of the book the pigs morphed into humans. The way I pictured it was that the pigs were still legitimate animals but in all of the other farm animals' eyes, they saw humans because that's how Jones treated them. The allusion of animal farm portrayed to Nazi Germany, or Russia, however, turning the citizens into animals made it very hard to picture the same things happening to people which made the books plot line seem more fiction than it actually was. I think that the part where I actually realized that the animals 

Animal Farm by George Orwell was incredibly boring. However, at the end of the book I was rewarded by making so many connections to today's political problems even though it was a book set in 1940. Being someone who is interested in dictatorship and I found it interesting that George Orwell portrayed a government with farm animals as the main citizens. The parts that I didn't understand a whole lot was why he included the part about Molly and her bows, and why the windmill was important. Although, I thought it was really cool how at the end of the book the pigs morphed into humans. The way I pictured it was that the pigs were still legitimate animals but in all of the other farm animals' eyes, they saw humans because that's how Jones treated them. The allusion of animal farm portrayed to Nazi Germany, or Russia, however, turning the citizens into animals made it very hard to picture the same things happening to people which made the books plot line seem more fiction than it actually was. I think that the part where I actually realized that the animals were starting to act like humans is when the pigs got drunk and Napoleon ran out wearing one of Jones' hats. The only part that I could really connect to a government issue is when Napoleon had the chickens killed on the spot by the dogs. I can on next that to Nazi Germany because hitter used to have Jews killed on the spot by his army members. In this case, Napolean's army members are his dogs. I would say that most students are incredibly bored and annoyed that it is a requirement to read Animal Farm in English class, however, if we were to read it in a history class, it will still be as boring as it would be I English, but the students would be able to connect more to the book after learning about nazi Germany than they would be able yo connect with of just a reading assignment in English class.

           In all, Animal farm is a really boring book about animals as dictators, but it portrays the pasts governments well, and is an example of what an allusion is for students, because it connects to hints we learned in history class.