Animal Farm

My first thoughts on Animal Farm were far away from what the book was realy about. When you hear the title, I was just like “ok...a book about animals...hmmmm”. Reading the book in 8th grade made me realize that the book so much deeper than my initial beliefs. And after reading it again now, I even captured some things I missed the first time. George Orwell's classic novel is an allegory to Stalinist Russia, and the entire novel is trying to make its audience aware of the ways that Communism itself doesn't make societies better, but it is a way for certain people to gain ultimate power and keep everyone on the same class level except for himself, as the Russian Dictator Joseph Stalin portrayed in history. Old Major (a boar) tells all the animals on the farm about a dream he had about being free and equal. Two other pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, have to try to live up to Old Major's dream, but with twists and turns, we see how these characters are parallel to actual historical figures. It's a great book, and short (although the message goes beyond the minimal pages).