Animal Farm(《动物农庄》英文书评).docVIP

Man and Animal First I want to mention that it has been half a month since I had finished the book Animal Farm written by George Orwell. I had written something the day I finished the book, but I want to add something now. Many teachers have ever recommended this book to us, so I bought it online instead of borrowing it from the library. The novel was not difficult to read and I spent five days to read it. I was little proud of the progress of my reading speed and really learned much from it. I supposed it was an interesting and joyful novel before I read it, because I thought it was something like a fairy tale. However, it was really sarcastic and the ending made me angry and sad. The end is as follows: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which.” I recalled that the early life after the animal rebellion was quite good and peaceful, when Snowball was still there. However, everything changed when Napoleon took the power of Animal Farm. I couldn’t assure Snowball was the best one, but Napoleon was surely the most vicious one. He, together with other pigs and dogs, became vicious and cruel and they learned the Men’s behavior, which mad the whole story miserable. The situation was that they overthrew the human’s cruel rule but rebuild another cruel rule. How ironic it was! Those pigs were clever but very mean! They expelled Snowball away. They always told lies and excelled in turning black into white. They lacked of sympathy, compassion and love. They were totally selfish. After Snowball disappeared for a long time, the living conditions of other animals were harsh. They were obliged to work very hard for long hours without enough food. Many of them fought against the authority but remained dead. I remembered that Boxer, the loyal and hard-working horse, was sent to slaughter when he was badly hurt for falling from the working place. Other animals were cheated that