Guitar Hero, my 14 year old son, is not an abstract thinker. In the first place, he is 14, and a boy. As well, he was diagnosed with autism when he was 3, which manifests itself in several ways, one of which is that he doesn't really do well with abstraction. So, when he was assigned Animal Farm a...
Leído para el reto 12 months-12 classic: MarzoLeído para el 2015 Reading Challenge #07: Un libro con personajes no humanos.Genial sátira de la Rusia comunista, que fácilmente puede aplicarse también a la Venezuela socialista. A continuación algunos ejemplos:"Snowball también se ocupó en organizar a ...
Phew, okay. This book was forced onto me by my lovely English teacher. History, first of all, is not my thing. I never get a good grade in that class and I don't like it. It bores me. So, needless to say, this book and the lesson that went along with it bored me. Now, maybe it was just that I was fo...
I'm not a great lover of fairy stories, so it didn't surprise me that I wasn't bowled over by this classic. However, I can see how it became such a hit, as it's extremely clever in its subtleties. I did admire the allegory of the animals who represented various characters from the Russian revolutio...
This is one of those books that scarcely needs an introduction. Orwell's classic satire tells the story of a revolution gone wrong. When the animals of Manor Farm revolt, taking control, they initially set-up the perfect democracy. The two leaders of their rebellion are two well educated pigs, Napol...
يُقال بأن أقل الناس حظاً هم من يعيشون الثورات ومراحل تغيير بلادهم السياسية، إذ كنت من هؤلاء الناس مثلي، فأنا متأكده بأنك ستشعر تلقائياً خلال قراءتك للرواية بأنك تعيش في وسط "مزرعة الحيوانات"، تأمل حياتك جيداً خلال الرواية وحاول إيجاد دورك، قد تكون غالباً دور الخروف الذي يحركّه القائد بلا وعي، أو من ...
Animal farm is a satirical novel actually more of a slap-on-the-face kind of a novel I would say. Which says too many things between the lines. The basic theme of the book is- how power can be misused if people choose a stupid ruler for themselves. A must read for every one!
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