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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Animal Farm - A book about talking animals - And the rules they make about living - Crazy right?

The book "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, is about a farm of talking animals who rise up against their abusive, mean, owner to start a animal revolution, to take back the earth from the humans. In this revolution they create the 7 commandments, the 7 rules that they must follow in the creation of their new world, but eventually, as they get further along with the creation, rules get bended to their liking because it suits them better. This book shows that without a leader anarchy will ensue. If you try to lead a government as a republic, it won't work out in the end.

In the book, the fifth commandment of the seven is "No animal shall drink alcohol." and that rule is the first to be broken. One night there is a loud crash and a pig is found on the ground and there is a broken ladder, and a jug of alcohol in his hand. And the animals let him off, the first mistake they make. I believe this is because they wanted their world to be perfect, and now that something has gone wrong they refuse to believe that it has. They want the perfect world so bad that they can't accept mistakes.

The first commandment, "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy is another rule that is shattered later on in the book. A pig strolls around the farm on two legs holding a whip,  making sure that all the animals are doing work. Between this and the alcohol drinking happening a lot of rules were broken and this is the icing on the cake, the last rule to be broken. At this point the last, the seventh commandment has been thrown out the book. "All animals are equal." Now they are just running a government just like it was in the beginning, except that the farmer is now an animal. This brings the idea into the reader's mind that all rulers are animals. A fantastic example of this is at the end, where an animal spies into the house of the farmer and sees the pig having dinner with fellow farmers, and they cheers their glasses and laugh, and drink and the pig can't tell who is a pig and who is a human. Maybe they're all pigs.