George Orwell

Trying to find a single thing an author loves to incorporate in each of their books is hard to pinpoint. For John Green we may agree realistic endings or strange but moving characters. But George Orwell really likes the word comrade. No idea why.

I recently read Animal Farm by this author. Though I really loved the point he was making about humanity and how it repeats itself, it was hard to get past the hilarity of it all. A farmer running away terrified of his own animals that had decided to make a republic where all animals were equal. And the pigs learning to read and speak and my favorite to picture, write. Just one pig holding a pencil betwixt his wee hooves. Within the first three pages you saw comrade was a commonly used title, but one day during PARRC I forgot the book and began to read 1984, in which he uses comrade once again. I love when authors have a special word they really like. For instance you may have noticed my strange incorporation of the word betwixt. I really enjoy to use that word and others like that from "old" English, like thus or hitherto. I guess you could say it is part of a authors craft.

While reading Animal Farm you really can see the parallels to our society even though it was published around WWII, the issues they had with humanity are ever so present and it is vital we understand the consequences it can cause. At the very end the, my favorite line went something like this, we looked around at all the faces and couldn't tell the difference between. Even though he was talking about pigs and humans they were acting the same and dressing the same and fighting in the same petty manner.

We can try to change who we are but unless you remember the past, like the animals couldn't you can be taken control of, like the pigs did.