I always talk about this phrase; "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Now I am talking about THE book that has em.

I actually thought about reviewing this book after my second time reading it. The first time I read it was so I would sound cleverer in my American Foreign Policy exam... huhu (this is a good way to summarize about American's foreign policy method). So yes, if you just read this piece up until this paragraph you would think this book is a political book.

But it's not that. Yes, Animal Farm is a poltical satire; a metaphor to Stalin and Bloshevik revolution in Russia after the ousting of the tsar. But if you are not into politics and kept bearing that in mind, you would not have the urge to pick up the book at all. Animal Farm is far from being a complicated political-hoohas... you can read it on the surface and still enjoy it.

Animal Farm is a 1945's George Orwell's masterpiece and the only book of his that I can memorize the title (hehe). On the surface, it tells a story about the animals in the Manor's Farm (you know; poultries, horses, cows, pigs, etc) that were motivated to rebel against their cruel owner. It started off with an assembly started by an old boar Major; who told the animals his dream of seeing all the animals free and not being a slave to the human being. After his death and an incident, the animals finally were encouraged to start a rebellion against their owner Mr Jones and ousted him. Finally having the farm all to themselves, they started an ambitious struggle to build their own life, starting with making the 7 Commandments (which includes rules like 'All animals should not kill other animals' and the infamous 'A;ll animals are equal') and changing the name from Manor's Farm to 'Animal's Farm'. However, making it out on their own proved no easy task. The cleverer pigs started to group up and take control and in the end the animals realized that their so-called free life are no more just a mere dream and that human and pigs are all the same... 

It is really an easy read (I know, cuz Azizi Abdullah also wrote a political satire 'Kawin-Kawin' and even THAT is harder to fathom). Orwell does not use difficult moreover 'poltical' words at all in this story of animals. In one way, readers would just see them as a 'children story'. That's what made it a masterpiece. Making it metaphorical and easy all at the same time. For example, Napoleon the boar can be seen as a very cunning pig, but at the same time it is Orwell's characterization of Josef Stalin. But underlining it all, it's not just a story of animals, or a story about the Soviet Union... it is also a story of greed and power that anybody can relate to, in any part of the world.

I encourage people to read it. Because it's just perfect. Five stars! (See, even Austen didn;t get a five from me. hAHA)