The Explosition

The book started with a meeting, not between humans but between animals. Animals on a farm called Manor Farm. There's horses, dogs, pigs, cows and soo forth, and it's the oldest pig that called everybody to the meeting. He explains how humans have tortured animals for centuries and used them for his own sake. He tell the others how he lived his live, and talks about a song called "Beasts of England". A couple of days later, the old pig dies. The mening with the meeting was that the old pig wanted the other animals to prepare for the Rebellion. It could be them or a later generation, that would overthrow the humans. After some time, the rebellion started. It began of a simple reason, the farmer hadn't given them any food more or less because he was too drunk. They chased him and his men away from the farm, and renamed it to "Animal Farm". Then they all turned the farmers house upside down.

"MR Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs Jones was already snoring."

This is the beginning, how the owner of the farm, Mr Jones, makes his way to bed. This gave me the expresion that this book maybe wasn't really too interesting. But as soon as it came to the "meeting" part, things started to get interesting. A pig that talkes about freedom. The "Man" that comsumes without producing anything.

"Then Snowball (for it was Snowball who was best at writing) took a brush between the two knuckles of his trotter, painted out MANOR FARM from the top bar of the gate and in its place painted ANIMAL FARM." I thinks might be the reason to why the book is called ANIMAL FARM. I thought that the book was about how the animals were able to take over the farm. However, it happened in the very beginning. Then what is the book really about? How the animal will survive, now when they doesn't have (what they call) a "Lord", that provides them with food. Will the two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, be able to take care of the farm? "Animal Farm" maybe is about how they survive without a "Lord" and how they can tell other animals on other farms to stand up against their "Lords".