Animal Farm

When I first started reading Animal Farm, I must admit, I thought it was a little ridiculous (the whole animals-taking-over-the-farm-and-writing-commandments-on-the-wall bit) but, once I got further into it, I really started to enjoy it. Although, I agree with one of the comments made in class, that your understanding of the book depends quite a bit on your knowledge of history, I kind of thought that it could work in the opposite way as well - it gave a really good synopsis of what took place, and the repercussions of the Russian Revolution.

I completely agreed with Michael when he said that there is a huge difference between the book representing something, and reminding one of something. I thought that the book was clearly a depiction of the Russian Revolution, and although it could remind someone of a totally different situation, it could never actually be confused with representing something other than what it does - the Russian Revolution. His whole description of the "point-to-point correspondence with reality" gave me a really clear understanding of what he was talking about.

All in all, I thought it was a really good lecture (and tutorial). One of the very few times I've left lecture feeling like I understood the material! hahaha!

Katy :)