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Blog post reviwing the book Animal Farm.
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title: "Book review 'Animal Farm'"
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date: "2017-12-17 12:08:25 +0530"
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Animal Farm is one of the good books I came across. The composition of sentences
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are so well, that I found them easy to read. It is less than 100 pages book
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which I completed in two sittings. Your mileage may vary. This book is authored
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by Eric Arthur Blair whose pen name is George Orwell. He is well-known for his
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critical writing on politics. Through this novel, he has tried to highlight
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limitations of human behavior. The plot is about a group of animals who are
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governed by their owner. One night they inspired to free themselves from their
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owner so that they can get freedom of taking their own decisions.
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They rebel against him and
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succeeded. One group self-proclaimed themselves as educated and takes the
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responsibility of taking important decisions. Every animal is happy because they
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are doing their hard work of growing food for themselves and not for others. In
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between the owner came with a group of people to take the revenge. It is
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interesting to read how these animals fought against humans and how they won the
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battle. An amendment is formed in which humans are considered as the greatest
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enemy of them. The story takes many tragic turns after that. Day by day elected
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leaders to make their own lifestyle better with the cost of other animals.
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Because the leaders are more literate than other animals, they portray
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hypothetical growth in front of them. Such imaginary growth helped them to
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create false faith in fellow animals. Mean a while, small dispute happens
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between leaders which took a big shape. One evil-minded captured the farm by
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killing the other leader and a democracy becomes a dictatorship. The leader
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invests animal forces to advance facilities of the farm and reduces efforts to
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grow the food for them. In the meantime, few other battles happen with humans.
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The leader decided to put maximum force to advance the farm and put minimum
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efforts to grow the food which resulted in the shortage of everything. You have
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to read how the dictator sold available resources to earn money which he
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invested in advancing the farm. This is how the independent farm started
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depending on humans. Ultimately the farm becomes bankrupt. Yet animals are in
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faith that the decision made by their leader is in their favor. The struggle
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continues for a while and finally, the dictator is bought by giving high bribe
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to supply whatever the farm is producing. The story ends with the hard truth
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that their own leader was never their own. The book has inscribed a deep
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impression on my soul. We better have to think at the time of listening to
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hegemony. I am thankful to guru Xitij Shukla who inspire me to read this book.
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