Why Should Students Read Animal Farm
George Orwell’s book Animal Farm is an important book that all high school students should read. The book is about…. Students can take a lot from this story and learn how easily people (in this case animals) can be corrupted. It’s great for learning because it’s teaches how people in power can abuse authority, it’s simple to read and it teaches literary devices.
The book starts off with the animals taking control over the farm and the pigs becoming the leaders since they were the smartest animals on the farm. The pigs learned how to read and write and came up with the following commandments to live by.
“1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.” (Orwell 24)
Snowball and Napoleon were in charge and eventually Napoleon was the only one. By the end of the story Napoleon was a dictator and had change the commandments to one single command, “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.” (Orwell 134) Also the simplicity of the story makes this a great book for young minds. For some…show more content… An allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. Animal Farm is an allegory, which is a story in which concrete and specific characters and situations stand for other characters and situations so as to make a point about them. The main action of Animal Farm stands for the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the early years of the Soviet Union. (Watson 2) Learning what some literary devices mean can helps students have a better understanding of English and the reading materials they’re