Margaret Atwood (whose Handmaid’s Tale threw me down when I read it) reflects on reading Animal Farm when she was nine:
To say that I was horrified by this book is an understatement. The fate of the farm animals was so grim, the pigs so mean and mendacious and treacherous, the sheep so stupid. Children have a keen sense of injustice, and this was the thing that upset me the most: the pigs were so unjust.
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