“Animal Farm”
Reading Journal
Preface
It is well known among the educated general public that the short-story entitled “Animal Farm,” written by George Orwell in 1943, is an allegory for the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in the early twentieth century and the harsh times that followed. It is a story that shows how a revolution against tyranny can transform into a totalitarianism which is even more terrible. Based on that postulation, the following is a journal kept during a reading of the novel which attempts to identify the parallels of the Animal Farm and the post-Tsarist Russia. It is made-up of six sections, the first five of which consisting of a two quotes apiece, one from each of the two chapters being examined, and a response from the writer to both quotes separately, as well as five vocabulary terms from each chapter which may be key to the understanding of the chapter and may or may not be included within the actual text of “Animal Farm”. Also, these......
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Approximate Word Count: 7043
Approximate Pages: 28 (260 words per double-spaced page) |