{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"37709070","dateCreated":"1302824302","smartDate":"Apr 14, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jsutton26","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jsutton26","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222961183\/jsutton26-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/37709070"},"dateDigested":1531973994,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"hello","description":"Animal Farm is a far more than a simple allegory. It is a satire which sets out to present the events of the Russian Revolution through the eyes of simplicity. The idea of animals developing into a communist society manages to criticize the humanity, or lack of it, through means that are subliminal to the human perception. When animals kill each other on a farm, the reader does not perceive the evils of men for it is the core of nature that animals kill each other. The massacres portrayed in the book are as powerful as they can be, but are limited by the perception of animals. When humans kill each other, everyone can understand the cruelty, the brutality of taking someone\u2019s life. But when humans are used to butchering animals for their very own cravings and necessities, the message of the book manages to hide itself from the obvious. Even when the book is an obvious \u201chomage\u201d to the Russian Revolution, many readers misinterpret it as simply that. Most don\u2019t understand that the brutality and nature of the animals in their quest for survival and place in society is actually referring to the same brutality in human beings. This is the power of the book through its simplicity and \u201cinnocence\u201d.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"37641404","dateCreated":"1302738202","smartDate":"Apr 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"hansel.andrew","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hansel.andrew","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/37641404"},"dateDigested":1531973994,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"will's response","description":" Animal farm is more than an allegory, its a literary critique about political injustice. Napoleon is a prime example of political injustice because he uses his dogs to take out all opposition of his leadership. He treats the general public unfairly by giving them less rations of food then himself. Napoleon dictates the animals with fear and oppression. This is an example of what was going on in Russia at the time. The animals in general, a symbol of the Russian workers were getting held down because the government was being selfish and greedy.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"37641272","dateCreated":"1302738046","smartDate":"Apr 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"arifishman95","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/arifishman95","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/37641272"},"dateDigested":1531973994,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"ari Fishman","description":"Animal Farm is a representation of the situation in Russia during the Stalin era. The story uses animals in order to represent how and why the revolution started. It also displays the difficulties and challenges the reforms might have had. In Animal Farm, the conflict is based on the ruling of a farm. In this allegory, the corruption, the power-hunger, the lies and the laws often are the catalysts of the major problems. This is similar to what happened in Russia, when Lenin\u2019s follower; Stalin, centralized all the economic and political power and later eventually converted The Soviet Union into a totalitarian state. The use of fear, violence and strong nationalism is also similar in both cases, making the second one (Animal Farm) be an allegory of the Russian Revolution and all of its conflicts.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"37640134","dateCreated":"1302736736","smartDate":"Apr 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Linndzy","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Linndzy","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1290198368\/Linndzy-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/37640134"},"dateDigested":1531973994,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Lindsey Pent","description":"Animal Farm is an allegory. An allegory is a representation of an abstract meaning through concrete or material form. Animal Farm uses the animals and their situations to show real life circumstances, specifically the events leading up to World War II. His characters even represented a few of the main instigators in Russia that helped spur the war. Some of the people he represents are Stalin, Trotsky, and Lenin. In Animal Farm he uses an allegory to show these people\u2019s different methods and to show what happened and to demonstrate some of the madness that they carried out. But the book leans more towards the selfishness of Stalin and the things that he went through to have things go exactly his way. The writer of the book \u201cAnimal Farm\u201d uses the perfect allegory to represent all the events that lead up to World War II and the challenges that they faced along the way.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"37584908","dateCreated":"1302670824","smartDate":"Apr 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"mekster","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mekster","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222961126\/mekster-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/37584908"},"dateDigested":1531973994,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"i kicked my owner cuase he didnt feed me","description":"Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is an excellent example of an allegory. It is also an eye opening allegory of the Russian revolution. It grabs a very important topic, sometimes hard to understand for people and converts it into simple reading, in which everyone can understand. It is a simpler way to look at a complex issue. I like the way the author uses examples of animals to demonstrate what it was like in the Russian Revolution. The fact that farm animals are only used for food and aren\u2019t treated as well as they should be, keeps the reader interested and begins to think about how it is true. I find it funny, that animals took over a farm, but when I think about it in the way that it is an allegory, I am astonished at what really happened in real life. Bravo Mr. Orwell","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"37615694","body":"Alright Jaime,
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1302715189","smartDate":"Apr 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"37584686","dateCreated":"1302670064","smartDate":"Apr 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"cfgonzalez94","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/cfgonzalez94","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/37584686"},"dateDigested":1531973994,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Carlos Gonzalez Response","description":"
\nAnimal Farm is an interpretation of sources in which the author describes the Russian Revolution of 1917 in his own imagination. Gathering information, the author decides to portray the most important characters of the revolution as animals. With the creativity and uniqueness of one\u2019s total imagination, the author is able to maneuver the Russian Revolution and tell it in his perspective; resulting as an amazing piece of work. Although not fully accurate, its a way in which one as a reader can understand the revolution much better. The allegory itself makes it easier and much more entertaining to read rather than to read history itself. Animal Farm is unique, fascinating, and over all a piece of work that turns history into something fun to read.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"37615524","body":"Carlos,
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\nCould you please explain what you mean by 'not totally accurate'?
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1302714988","smartDate":"Apr 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"37642686","body":"The allegory is not 100% correct when one compares it to the Russian Revolution. It is very similar but not 100% accurate due to some events that happened or didn't happen in the revolution or in the allegory itself.","dateCreated":"1302739620","smartDate":"Apr 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"bibi_lamas","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bibi_lamas","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1285202747\/bibi_lamas-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"37642720","body":"sorry i was using biancas computer so it was logged in in her account","dateCreated":"1302739657","smartDate":"Apr 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"bibi_lamas","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bibi_lamas","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1285202747\/bibi_lamas-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"37582406","dateCreated":"1302664719","smartDate":"Apr 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"melafavini","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/melafavini","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/37582406"},"dateDigested":1531973995,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"favini","description":""Animal Farm" is a fictive story. It's contradictory to its figurative mode of representation, being an allegory. Animal Farm starts out with Old Major, a pig who gives a speech to the rest of the animals describing a typical animal's life, "miserable, laborious, and short." From this, we can see how this novel is a fictive novel. It does contradict the fact that it's an allegory because of the idea that it reflects events that happened in real life but has a fictive setting in the novel.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"37615384","body":"Alright Melanie,
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\nWhat exactly do you mean by 'contradictory to its figurative mode of representation'?
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1302714822","smartDate":"Apr 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"37624656","body":"What I mean by "contradictory to its figurative mode of representation" is that it contradicts the fact that it's figurative mode of representation is an allegory.","dateCreated":"1302721588","smartDate":"Apr 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"melafavini","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/melafavini","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"37582006","dateCreated":"1302664033","smartDate":"Apr 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"dmarin464","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dmarin464","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1225941095\/dmarin464-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/37582006"},"dateDigested":1531973995,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Animal Farm Response","description":"Animal Farm is parallel allegory to the political theory and events of communism in the Soviet Union pre World War II. The pig Old Major depicts Lenin because of his speech of revolution and change calling for equality upon Mr. Jones, the head of the farm, or in this case, the Czar. The pigs Napoleon and Snowball represent Stalin and Trotsky, fighting to be the head of the Communist Party (or in this case, the Animal Farm) by giving and maintaining orders and speeches to the rest of the animals. In addition, the pigs have Old Major\u2019s skull cleaned and placed where the other animals can see him and praise his ideology, parallel to having Lenin\u2019s body preserved and in public. The animals form a strong union under equality as seen in their rule that all animals are equal, however, the pigs appear to be more equal than the rest of the animals, just as Stalin rivaled Trotsky. Napoleon has Snowball flee by the use dogs, parallel to the secret police enforcing his will, just as Stalin kicks Trotsky out of the country and sends his men to kill him. Thus, because of the parallel events and characters, Animal Farm is an allegory of the beginning of communism development in U.S.S.R.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"37615198","body":"Thanks Daniel,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1302714671","smartDate":"Apr 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"37581320","dateCreated":"1302662764","smartDate":"Apr 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"ereiche","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ereiche","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1226183145\/ereiche-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/37581320"},"dateDigested":1531973995,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"erik","description":"Animal farm is an allegory reflecting the events that happened during the Stain era in Russia before World War II. Such allegory represents the hard time that many Russians faced during a period dominated by several \u201cnew\u201d and supposedly successful ideas on how to run a country. The influences of many different ideas like the communist party are reflected though the animal\u2019s constant suffering and unhappiness after believing in a supposed answer to the old type of government. (the democracy\u2019s failures during World War I) In the allegory, similarly to the Stalin era, the new government in a sense betrays the citizens and transforms into possibly a bigger problem, rather than into the desired solution that everyone hoped for.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"37615106","body":"Alright Erik,
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1302714603","smartDate":"Apr 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"37573560","dateCreated":"1302653668","smartDate":"Apr 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"AmandaTrejos","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/AmandaTrejos","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/37573560"},"dateDigested":1531973995,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"amanda trejos","description":"Animal Farm is an allegory that tries to make people see all of the shocking and misfortunate things that happened during the Russian Revolution. Many leaders came along and made life harder for most people, but others came into power and tried to sooth things out. Animal Farm involves animals in order for us to view the scenario in a different perspective and not only on one point of view. Pigs are intelligent creatures and so that is why George Orwell portrays them as the leaders of all the beings. They represent Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky; they are able to manipulate and make all of the other animals do as they say. It was supposed to be a democracy, but it turned out to be a dictatorship in which everyone has to do what he or she are told even though they don\u2019t want to. This book lets us know the kind of things that were happening during the rise of World War II and some of the things during the Russian Revolution.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"37614870","body":"Good Amanda,
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1302714385","smartDate":"Apr 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}