Suzanne Gulbin

Suzanne Gulbin is a first time teacher in Pennsylvania, and she had her students read Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. She had her students come up with information to add to a discussion about the two. In doing this research they found many similarities in the two books. Both deal with the government in some form; both have a transformation of pig to man, or man to pig; both have rebellions of some form; and both have situations of absolute irony. These are just some of the similarities the class came up with.

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Russell Baker

Russell Baker wrote the preface for George Orwell's Animal Farm and he does a good job explaining the type of book it is. Russell Baker called Animal Farm a "Fairy Story", a political tract, satire, an allegorical lesson, and he compared it to Aesop's Fables. He says this book is laughing at all people who believed a utiopa could be achievable. He goes into detail about how the workings of the book describe what was happening in the Soviet Union, and how some people turned a blind eye until it was too late.

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