Farm of Animals

I first read Animal Farm my junior year of high school, and when I seen it on the list of books we needed for class I was pleased to say the least. Animal Farm is definitely near the top of the list as far as books I've read, Orwell does an amazing job using personification and really putting the history in to the characters of the book. The plot of Animal Farm is written to mimic the Russian Revolution and allegories Joseph Stalin's rise to power under Soviet Communism. Not only does Orwell do an excellent job with the characters of the book, he also shows how the Russian people loved Stalin with a passion, even though he slaughtered any who stood against him. Around 51 million people were killed during the Stalin era from starvation, war, executions, labor camps, and all sorts of other means; while people erected monuments of him. Stalin was definitely one of the greatest leaders as far as building Soviet Russia because he definitely made the Soviets into a world super power. Animal Farm personifies some of the events that made Stalin famous, and how easily some peoples are blinded by their leaders.