Animal Farm pages 1-20

SUMMARY:
The begginig of the book starts of telling us the ideas of Old Major, who is the wisest of the pigs. At the beggining we can already tell that the end is coming near for Old Major because he is telling the farm how they should live there lives later on after he dies. He tells them the dream that he has about how the animals will rise against the tyranny of man. I as a reader also understand that there is a power struggle between the pigs.

Quote:
"The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth."(Orwell 18)

Reaction:
After reading this quote I immediatley thought of a communist government. With countriess that have a communist government the people that live under the government feel as if they are slaves and live miserable because there is a greater force that controls there every move, like animals which are the main characters of this book. The people treatiing the animals like slaves is the government and the people being mistreated and rights violated are the animals.