Today our group did a review on the second and third chapter of the book, "Animal Farm" written by George Owell. Our group decided to continue reading on since we were all interested in finding out what happens next. In chapter 2, Major dies and the other animals start rebelling against Mr. Jones and his farmers - instead of doing their jobs, they start attacking their "owners"! The men get scared because they have never seen the animals behave this way; without any choice, they run away from the farm. Finally freed from their hated enemies, the animals rejoice. With the smartest animals (the pigs) in lead, they decide to run the place on their own. Everything is better than it had been when Mr. Jones was here.
In chapter 3, it shows the pigs bossing the other animals around more intensively than before, and things are starting to look bad for Animal Farm. They always take the best harvest and the others only get hay and water at the least. What's going to happen next? Are the animals going to rebel against the pigs? Or is nothing going to change? Find out the rest by reading the book!
The characters, as I said before, are mostly made up of animals, and the way the author portrays each species is really interesting - for example, the pigs are the smartest yet bossiest ones; the horses are hardworking and kind; the donkey is old and stubborn, etc. The personalities he set for each animal is what most people have in mind, so it's easy to picture the various scenes described in the book.
The genre of this book is fiction and is thought-provoking because even when the animals are freed from the human beings they hate, things are still not going as good as they have thought it would. I think the reason to this is because the pigs are starting to act like Mr.Jones themselves - ordering other animals around, then getting all the best things in the end without doing much. This is what generated the most discussion within our group in Literature Circle today. If the pigs go on like that, they won't be able to change anything in the farm - it will be the same as when Mr. Jones was there.
I would recommend this book to teenagers and above due to the complicated language used, as I mentioned in my previous review. Reading between the lines is essential if you want to fully understand the story, so it will be difficult for a young audience to enjoy this book. The storyline is really good though, and the author's style of writing is really fascinating. You can learn a lot of new vocabularies as well! Read this book and be amazed.
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