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My reading experiences this summer included three very different novels: Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, and On the Road by Jack Kerouac. ... These are all stories about rebellion.
Orwell’s novel about a farm taken over by animals is actually a satire on politics and on how power corrupts. ... With such patriotism and the promise of jobs for all, most publishers refused to print Orwell’s book. Interestingly, this book, though unpopular in Orwell’s time, and has been hailed by later generations. ...
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a novel about a group of overworked, underfed, animals taking over Manor Farm and establishing a communist system called “animalism. ... Specifically, two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, lead the rebellion successfully against the farm’s owner. ...
Like Hemingway, Jack Kerouac is generally regarded as the voice of his generation. ... Although both sets of characters in these two novels travel, the later group, in Kerouac’s story, does so often in extreme poverty, as they refuse to be materialistic. ... Kerouac tries to make their way of life seem heroic, if not holy. ...
In Orwell’s Animal Farm, things are done in the name of making things simpler, but nobody, or rather no animal, is sure where they are going.
Approximate Word count = 1394
Approximate Pages = 5.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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