George Orwell
, Title book: Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Secker and Warburg
Published: 17 august 1945
Pages: 53 (iBook), 112 ( UK paperback edition)
Before reading
I didn’t chose this book because we needed to read it for school. My expectations before
reading was that the book was about animals. I didn’t knew what to expect further. I didn’t
hear of the book before and I didn’t knew what it was about before.
Epitome
Animal Farm
Chapter 1
Old Major ( a boar) had a strange dream and wisheid he could communicate it
to the orther animals. They met at the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was
safely out of the way. Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw under
a lantern. The orther animals began to arrive and looked for a comfortable
place. First the three dogs came, than the hens, the pigeons, the sheep and
cows, the horses, the white goat Muriel and Benjamin the donkey. Benjamin is
the oldest animal on the farm and the worst tempered. The two horses had
just lain down when a few ducklings, who lost their mother, passed by to look
for a save place. Clover made a sort of wall around the ducklings and they
nestled down inside it and fell asleep. At the last moment Mollie, the white
mare, took place near the front. Last at all the cat came. All the animals
where in the big barn except Moses, the tame raven.
Old Major started with an announcement, he told his comrades that he
wanted to tell something else first. He told them that he was afraid he
wouldn't live for very long anymore. He asks himself what the nature of their
live is. He tells the other animals that no animal in England is free. They all
have to work hard or they get much food so they get fat and they go to the
butcher. He tells his comrades that man are the only enimies they have. 'Man
is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not
give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he
cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the
animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare
minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps
for himself.'(page 3) Old Major thinks that the Rebellion will come. He says
that his comrades need to fix their eyes on that. After his announcement he
tells about his dream. He couldn't describe his dream but it was a dream of
the earth hoe ot will be when Man has vanished. It reminded him of
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, Title book: Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Secker and Warburg
Published: 17 august 1945
Pages: 53 (iBook), 112 ( UK paperback edition)
Before reading
I didn’t chose this book because we needed to read it for school. My expectations before
reading was that the book was about animals. I didn’t knew what to expect further. I didn’t
hear of the book before and I didn’t knew what it was about before.
Epitome
Animal Farm
Chapter 1
Old Major ( a boar) had a strange dream and wisheid he could communicate it
to the orther animals. They met at the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was
safely out of the way. Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw under
a lantern. The orther animals began to arrive and looked for a comfortable
place. First the three dogs came, than the hens, the pigeons, the sheep and
cows, the horses, the white goat Muriel and Benjamin the donkey. Benjamin is
the oldest animal on the farm and the worst tempered. The two horses had
just lain down when a few ducklings, who lost their mother, passed by to look
for a save place. Clover made a sort of wall around the ducklings and they
nestled down inside it and fell asleep. At the last moment Mollie, the white
mare, took place near the front. Last at all the cat came. All the animals
where in the big barn except Moses, the tame raven.
Old Major started with an announcement, he told his comrades that he
wanted to tell something else first. He told them that he was afraid he
wouldn't live for very long anymore. He asks himself what the nature of their
live is. He tells the other animals that no animal in England is free. They all
have to work hard or they get much food so they get fat and they go to the
butcher. He tells his comrades that man are the only enimies they have. 'Man
is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not
give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he
cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the
animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare
minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps
for himself.'(page 3) Old Major thinks that the Rebellion will come. He says
that his comrades need to fix their eyes on that. After his announcement he
tells about his dream. He couldn't describe his dream but it was a dream of
the earth hoe ot will be when Man has vanished. It reminded him of
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