To finish up the 1st semester of ninth grade English, we read the novel, Animal Farm. It was written by George Orwell in 1950. He was from England and decided to write about the Russian Revolution and the main people and conflicts in that time. All of his characters matched perfectly with the people of that event. I enjoyed reading this book and I am going to write about a lesson that is to be learned from this book. I thought since it fits both the book and the event of the Russian Revolution, i should write about being equal. In the story the animals get tired of being slaves for their master, Mr. Jones, and revolt very early in the book. They end up doing well on their own after some time. Eventually there are two pigs who want to run a campaign and have votes on who should rule the farm. One pig gets blamed for something he didn't do and gets chased out of the farm. The other pig turns out to be a very bad ruler and ruthless towards his fellow animals. The reason i chose to write about being equal is because the animals started off hating humans and said they would never hurt other animals, but in the end a few animals have 5X the power of others and claim to be more important and even start taking up habits that the humans did earlier in the story such as, trade, drinking alcohol, wearing clothes, and even walking on two legs! The lesson of this story is to treat each other equal and make others feel important so you can have a good society and stay happy.
