Animal farm

The animals of Manor Farm are abused and neglected. the animals take over the farm, they are proud of what they have achieved and work together to create a better farm.
The animals agree to the Seven Commandments that explains how every animal is equal and how each animal should treat its fellow animal.

The pigs think so and thus decide that this ‘equal’ society must be led so that this equality will last. However over time they begin to succumb to the excesses of success and as they believe themselves to be superior intellects, the decide that only they can organize and manage the other lower animals. Amending the commandments they begin to hide their excesses and as time goes by the lower animals find themselves in the same position they were in with the humans….

The book cleverly creates characters that despite being animals have human traits; it comments on how the underlying reasons for communism are good, but how an equal society simply cannot work due to man’s inability to avoid greed and temptation.

It’s not the most exciting book ever written but it is infused with satire and comedy; it’s the commentary on human nature and the evils we can easily commit that make it so compelling.

Twelfth night

This is a comedy play by William Shakespeare. Viola, cross dresses and takes the man's name of Cesario. Viola enters the service of the Duke of Illyria, Orsino. Orsino longs for the love of a neighbouring countess. Viola (Cesario) then falls in love with Orsino. To add to the farce Viola's (Cesario) identical twin, Sebastian arrives on the scene. Living in Olivia’s household is her uncle, Sir Toby Belch, a merry character. The steward of the household is the conceited Malvolio.The plot illustrates jealousy, mistaken Identity, cross-dressing and features fights and duels. In the end Sebastian and Olivia fall in love and marry. Orsino realises that it is Viola that he loves and she agrees to marry him. Sir Toby Belch and Maria also decide to marry! Twelfth Night ends and everyone, except Malvolio, is happy and Shakespeare speaks of the madness of love.

Matilda

This book is about a girl who has partents that call her horrible names and treat her like shes worthless. However, she is an actual genius. Ignoring all those names she gets called, pretending the way she gets treated isn't happening, she carries on with life. As she gets older she realises that her parents are in actual fact the stupid ones. Read this book to find out how she gets the better of her parents and her evil headteacher, Miss Trunchbull, as well as finding out she has a very special power.

I really liked this book. As I got reading I got more involved and more interested in the book. Every time one of her parents called her stupid or made her feel worthless, I felt angry for her, and found myself shouting at the book saying " why don't you stand up for yourself?! "

i would definately recomend this book to people.