Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.
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The Seven Commandments
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.
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War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
(Don't forget this book is from the perspective of animals)
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The two (Napoleon and Snowball) disagreed at every point where disagreement was possible.
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He said, life would go on as it had always gone on- that is, badly.
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Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well.
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
By that you can already tell that the farm is going to be corrupt under the leadership of Napoleon. At this stage, the rations are very little so reducing them by half will practically mean death, so you tell me, is it really strictly voluntary?
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
-Theodore Roosevelt
So since I finished Animal Farm, I started reading Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie, because I love detective stories!
This was also borrowed from the library and I was actually looking for Sherlock Holmes, but there were none left so I was like awww =[
And then on display: Agatha Christie! yayy =]
By the way, for those of you who don't know, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot can sort of be compared to Sir Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, as they were both really popular and were created around the same time (I think).
But I reckon Sherlock Holmes owns Agatha Christie's novels.
But yes, they're still awesome books but it just seems weird that death seems to follow Poirot like EVERYWHERE! Like he's on a holiday somewhere and then someone randomly dies and it's his responsibility to figure out who it was.
On the topic of books, I REALLY want Lord Sunday (by Garth Nix)!
I have all the other books in the series and this is the last one! =O
Can't wait to read it!!!
The ending of Superior Saturday was so...*facepalm*
Basically, imagine the main guy falls down this pit, and the fall might kill him, and then you're like OH NO HOW IS HE GOING TO SURVIVE?!
AND THEN, anticipating some heroic feat, you turn the page only to find out that he -END-
yeah, it was very much like that. Actually it was practically just that.
I hope Garth Nix did a really good job with the ending of Lord Sunday, because I don't want it to be like those overly cliched endings like Harry Potter. Because we all know how much I hate happy endings, except in non-fictional stories, of course. Real life happy endings are the best.
Oh, and also, a while ago, I think in the holidays?, I got so bored I rearranged all the icons on my desktop and the result:
just to prove that happiness can be found anywhere.
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