Animal Farm Review

1. I chose to review Angela's project on her blog: AngelaMak. First of all I thought her project was very creative. It had a lot of great colors, details, and indepth symbolism. The first thing I noticed when looking at her project was all the men in the background! I was thinking, "What are all these men doing here?" As she explained below her project, the men were, "...surrounding this pyramid because they more commonly succumb to greed and corruption and are generally the leaders and the people in power." I thought that was interesting because not a lot of other people included men in their project. I also thought it was interesting how she put our President in there, to me that is a way of paralleling not only Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution but also paralleling the Past to the Present; and showing how, even in todays culture, we still have leaders and people above others. The theme she really brought out in her project was that communism will never happen and she illustrated this be showing the unequality of the animals who were supposedly "equal." Some indepth symbolism I noticed was that all the animals are blending into the background but then there is a pig above all the rest; to me this depicts how all the animals were working together behind the scenes while the pig not only got all the credit but was also on the top of the pyramid.

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2. Kelsey: Kelseys project was in the form of Comic Strip. She many colorful pictures to illustrate the story of Animal Farm. I think her project was very effective (2.7) and I particularly enjoyed how she used the windmills to represent the mood of animal farm: when things are going good the sky is a nice baby blue and when things are going bad their is lightning and clouds!

3. Emily Wakefield: Emily made her project in Photoshop and it is very interesting and effective (2.8). I really liked how she not only made the animal pyramid but also did a pyramid that paralleled to the Russian Revolution.

4. Levi: Levi's project is absolutely amazing! He made a video that thoroughly describes Animal Farm and it's theme, he also added the Cuban Revolution in there which is very original and unique because I don't know anyone else who did that (3)!

5. Sidney: Sidney did a poem (2.9) and it was very effictive. It clearly outlined the whole story and was moderately lengthy.

6. Hailey: Hailey did a poem that was very effective (2.6). I liked how it was from the animals point of view and I also like the rhyming style ( aab).

7. Adorka Nwanky: Adorka did a poem (3). As I was reading this I felt as though Adora was reading it to me, she clearly has a very distinctive style and uses it well! Great idea to do the poem from the donkeys point of view :)

8. Raegan: Raegan did photoshop (2.5) and it was absolutely incredible. I love all the different aspects pulled in together. I also love how it looks right together but also wrong, it would make for a great artwork peice/conversation peice!

9. Kylie: Kylie did photoshop (2.6) and it was very insightful. She had interesting little extras that you only caught if you were paying attention, for example: one pig (napoleon) was wearing  a crown, and also how the commandments had the rewritten commandments.

10. Leanna: Leanna Did Photoshop (2.8) and it was very creative. I like how she showed the controllers and showed how unequal all the animals were! I also liked how she showed one leader and then a group of others and just clumped them all together.


Me: I feel like I compare relatively well. I think everyone stands out in a different aspect; Adorka is deep, and Angela is artistic, and I am informative. So I think it all evens out for the most part! I really enjoyed looking through all the projects! I think that I put in a lot of effort probably a little more than most of my classmates. I conveyed the literary concepts well, I showed how communism doesn't work well (today, in the russian revolution, and in Animal farm) and also who rises up and takes control.