Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Free Write on Animal Farm

I enjoy any type of parodies, including songs, movies, books, and drawings that talk about or criticize current world issues. Animal Farm is one of the most brilliant parodies I have ever read in my entire life. None of the books that I have read had this great of a parody about world issues. Most of the characters, and even a little thing represents at least something. Also, the way the animals are described, for instance, Stalin and other leaders as "pigs" is very clever. The author, George Owell makes fun of those leaders by describing them as lazy, greedy, fat pigs.
As commonly known, every characters and their actions are based on the real events. The characters do whatever their representing people/things did. The actions that the characters take have meanings behind them too. For instance, the actions that Napoleon, Squealer, and the nine dogs took seems so unfair and incomprehensible. That way, the author criticizes the real people that the characters represent. I just think it is a brilliant way of making fun of those people and I could not be bored of it.

1 comment:

Blogs for school/random things said...

I couldn't agree more! :) You made a great point.