His name was Boxer.
Yes, thank you.
Poor Boxer.
Oh yes.
I am not sure that Animal Farm is the sort of book that it supposed to evoke an emotional response, but it did.
Me too. I think Boxer's fate was supposed get an emotional response, though.
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Frankenbuddha - Aug 02, 2006 8:19:01 am PDT #1105 of 28131
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Sophia Brooks - Aug 02, 2006 8:22:14 am PDT #1106 of 28131
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Thinking critically about Animal Farm....
I think that George Orwell's writing philosophy was like Brecht's-- to incite action rather than emotion. I just find Brecht's (and Orwell's) works to be emotionally moving. I think it may just be a reaction to the melodrama that same before them, though.
I also am just guessing about orwell's motives, as I know little to nothing about him.
Beverly - Aug 02, 2006 8:33:39 am PDT #1107 of 28131
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Okay, I've never read Animal Farm and now I ain't gonna. 1984, though, and scads of 50s-70s scifi, so I'm all countercultured up.
Polter-Cow - Aug 02, 2006 8:40:20 am PDT #1108 of 28131
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I read Animal Farm directly before reading 1984, so it struck me how the former seemed almost like preparation for or a precursor to the latter.
They were both spring break reading material. Along with Catcher in the Rye and...maybe A Streetcar Named Desire ? Possibly Glass Menagerie. There was at least one play, and I think it was Tennessee Williams.
erikaj - Aug 02, 2006 8:43:55 am PDT #1109 of 28131
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh God, somebody's pulled Corwood's chain. We'll be here all night. (sighs, puts out peaches)
Sophia Brooks - Aug 02, 2006 8:45:15 am PDT #1110 of 28131
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Did you read them on Spring Break as part of school, or on your own?
Back in the dark ages when I was in school, we never, ever, ever had to read anything when we were on vacation, although we read one book a year as "outside reading" which meant that we chose 1 of 3 or 4 books, and then took a test when we were done reading. I think vacation reading is weird, even though I read like a maniac on vacation. I feel like perhaps it would have made me want to read LESS.
Polter-Cow - Aug 02, 2006 8:45:15 am PDT #1111 of 28131
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I didn't actually ask for the long story, erika! Maybe we'll be safe.
Did you read them on Spring Break as part of school, or on your own?
On my own. Kind of a "Why the hell haven't I read these books for school?" binge. Oh, I also read Brave New World after 1984.
I ended up writing my senior thesis on dehumanization in dystopian societies in the two books, so I got more bang for my intellectual buck.
erikaj - Aug 02, 2006 8:47:59 am PDT #1112 of 28131
Always Anti-fascist!
Sometimes you don't have to ask. But I'm not putting the cinnamon out, just in case.
Hayden - Aug 02, 2006 8:53:26 am PDT #1113 of 28131
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
No one authorized the cinnamon, that's for sure.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 02, 2006 8:55:17 am PDT #1114 of 28131
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I see the whole sick crew is here, then.