Entry 8

[entry of my choice]

Animal Farm would is probably the book I have repeated reading the most. I was recommended this book by my English tutor, and she told me that this book was related to a major event in history. I tried to connect every ancient history people I knew to the book. I remember my first try was Hitler, who had almost no connection, and I was extremely embarrassed. Since then I got to know who Stalin was and what he did. Animal Farm sounded very similar to another Orwell’s book, 1984. People lose freedom, they do not know, some of them get brainwashed, and they are forced to trust in the government. How the government’s word play affected the characters, I still do not understand. By reading these books, I got to know more history than I did before (I am glad; I did not know any major historical events at all except for World War II).
I heard of the title of this novel, Animal Farm, when I was in elementary school. My mom told me about the book, and I thought it was some peaceful story with animals living in a farm with a “normal” farmer. I did not know that an interesting and simple story like this was a history event. After reading this book for the first time, my head almost popped because there were too much information and too much to compare with the story and the real history. This was my third time of reading this book, and I am not tired of it at all.