I read Animal Farm myself in high school. It is a massive eye opener given how the animals were able to dispose of the humans. The animals then made up rules basically saying that they would not live in the house.
By the end of the book, a pig named Napoleon deposed of the previous leader. There was a phrase that was the theme of the book, "All animals are equal." As the book continued, the phrase was changed to, "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
Keep in mind that pig imagery was used to describe congress in the season three Simpsons episode, "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington," when she discovers that her congressman is nothing but a crook.
Our class read both 1984 and Brave New World, then we had a discussion as to which scenario was more likely to occur. We concluded, rather sadly, that 1984 was more probable.
While there were definitely parts I didn't quite understand at the time due to my age and innocence, it had a profound impact on me.
After reading 1984, I later read both Animal Farm and H.G. Wells' Brave New World. Learned about both of those reading the description on the back of the 1984 paperback, as this was pre-Internet days. Doubt too many kids my age did the same.
In high school, they had us read parts of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and memorize a speech from it. We also had to read Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
Animal Farm was out of the high school curriculum as early as the 1990s, it appears.
Read Russian history. Animal farm is an actual documentary of Lenin's Soviet Union and how the Bolsheviks went from co-opting a revolution to commie consolidation 1914-1923, winning the 6 year Russian Civil War that resulted from the 1917 commie takeover.. Yes, the real Russian revolution actually started in 1914 under the cover of WW1.
I read Animal Farm myself in high school. It is a massive eye opener given how the animals were able to dispose of the humans. The animals then made up rules basically saying that they would not live in the house.
By the end of the book, a pig named Napoleon deposed of the previous leader. There was a phrase that was the theme of the book, "All animals are equal." As the book continued, the phrase was changed to, "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
Keep in mind that pig imagery was used to describe congress in the season three Simpsons episode, "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington," when she discovers that her congressman is nothing but a crook.
Our class read both 1984 and Brave New World, then we had a discussion as to which scenario was more likely to occur. We concluded, rather sadly, that 1984 was more probable.
I read 1984 in 1984. I was still in grade school.
While there were definitely parts I didn't quite understand at the time due to my age and innocence, it had a profound impact on me.
After reading 1984, I later read both Animal Farm and H.G. Wells' Brave New World. Learned about both of those reading the description on the back of the 1984 paperback, as this was pre-Internet days. Doubt too many kids my age did the same.
In high school, they had us read parts of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and memorize a speech from it. We also had to read Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
Animal Farm was out of the high school curriculum as early as the 1990s, it appears.
Read Russian history. Animal farm is an actual documentary of Lenin's Soviet Union and how the Bolsheviks went from co-opting a revolution to commie consolidation 1914-1923, winning the 6 year Russian Civil War that resulted from the 1917 commie takeover.. Yes, the real Russian revolution actually started in 1914 under the cover of WW1.