Animal Farm
George Orwell (Macmillan Collector's Library)
Orwell wrote "Animal Farm" in 1945, and the book was meant to be a warning about totalitarian systems like Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, but they are not meant to be instruction manuals.
Orwell really warned about this about 100 years ago, right when he wrote "Animal Farm" in 1984, and he based those books are warnings. They're based on the totalitarian systems of Naz...
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Orwell wrote "Animal Farm" in 1945, and the book was meant to be a warning about totalitarian systems like Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, but they are not meant to be instruction manuals.
Orwell really warned about this about 100 years ago, right when he wrote "Animal Farm" in 1984, and he based those books are warnings. They're based on the totalitarian systems of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
And yet here we are. So what they do in this Orwellian twist is they completely upend the narrative and they completely upend the language. This is what all dictatorships do.
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It was mentioned as a book that helped Yeonmi understand the totalitarian system in her home country and the lies she had been told as a child.
It took time it to me trusting what that meant was reading George Orwell's Animal Farm. That helped me to understand what happened to my country, what happened to my myself, why the country became that way.