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Animal Farm: Best political satire ever written

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Animal Farm TITLE- Animal Farm ORIGINAL TITLE- Animal Farm: A Fairy Story AUTHOR- George Orwell PUBLISHED ON- 17 August 1945 GENRES- Political satire, Children's literature, Novella. PAGE LENGTH- 112 WHAT'S THE STORY?           The book is set in the world where animals are cleaver than humans.           The leader of animals in farm, old major, the old pig on Manor farm, starts a revolution against their human owner. He refers human as enemy and composes a revolutionary song, 'Beasts of England.' Major was very kind and fair but he dies early.           After the death of old major, Napoleon becomes a new leader. But he was unfair and power hungry. He makes some rules under which, all the pigs are subjected to superior food, pleasures and rights. Other animals are forced to work hard, day and night.           Snowball, another pig who is much more respected than N...

Book Review: The Little Prince

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A book loved by all. TITLE- The Little Prince/ Le Petit Prince (French) AUTHOR- Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry TRANSLATOR- Katherine Woods PUBLISHED ON- April 1943 GENRES- Fantasy, Children's literature, Novella, Speculative fiction. PAGE LENGTH- 85 WHAT'S THE STORY?           A pilot crashes in the Sahara desert. Middle of nowhere, thousand miles away from any habitation, he find himself helpless. While attempting to fix a plane he meets a strange boy who is weirdly dressed. Boy demands that the pilot should draw him a sheep, so pilot attempts to draw a sheep.           Slowly and steadily as the story proceed, the boy reveals his story. He is a Little Prince comes from a small asteroid, where he lives alone with his rose flower. But when rose started demanding, he got confused by his feeling about her. So he decided to leave his home asteroid and journey to other planets in search of k...

Who is a real man ?

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          When we say 'Male' or 'Man', what comes to our mind is a person with good height, heavy weight, flat face and broad mustache. Male or Man, we don't have clear difference in our mind. We often do a mistake to consider both the phrase as same. But in reality they are not.           Male is a phrase which indicates 'Sex' of a human. Biologically, humans are divided into males and females. A male human is one who has one X chromosome and one Y chromosome; a female is one who has two X chromosome. Male is a human with mustache, testicles and lots of testosterone. While female is a human with womb, ovaries and little testosterone. It is a broad biological differentiation which is gifted to us and not evolved. Sex is a very simple thing. To become a member of male sex is simplest thing in the world. Just combine X and Y chromosome and hollaaa, you are a male. To become female is equally simple. A pair of two...

Why do we love 'Villain'?

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A person is never wicked           The plots of various books are mainly based on revenge, rage and resulting violence. There is always a good guy who by mistake does something wrong which hurts the other guy. The other guy turns evil and seek for revenge. This is how a 'Villain' is created. As we go on reading we notice that, it is not the Hero but the Villain that fascinates us most. Why do this happens?           As a reader we built a tendency to compare a character with ourself. And when we read a story in Villan's point of view, we find that he is not doing anything wrong. He is just responding to the situations and it doesn't make him fully responsible for them.           Revenge makes a person mad. Mad person tends to do bad things. Bad things results accordingly in grave consequences. And those consequences are not always good for people. So they curs...

Cleanliness is next to Godliness

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Importance of clean earth           Earth is the most beautiful thing god has ever created. By every sense, earth is unique in our galaxy. It has trees, soil, atmosphere and air to breath, a perfect condition to flourish the life. But in the era of modernization and globalization, Aren't we following behind in maintaining beauty and cleanliness of our mother earth ?           A clean person is not who runs away from dirt but who takes efforts to clean that dirt. Most people keep their home clean; but don't hesitate to dirty their surrounding, which is not a good habit. As a member of 'The Earth Community' we owe something to it. We are responsible to keep our home as well as our surrounding clean and clear from dirt.           Various countries has registered a sustained economic growth in last few years. Their growth curve is rising to the sky, which is a pro...

Kindle or Paper Book ?

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Kindle or Paper Book           As a beginner reader, a question pop-up in everyone's mind is - Should I start reading with Kindle or Paper book? Answer to this question is different for different person. Let's get into pros and cons of both of them and help you choose the one suits you.           Kindle           Kindle is an amazing platform for reading offered by Amazon. It is easy to use easy to carry and has hell lot of the options to choose from. It makes our fast and busy life a little bit simple. Here are some pros and cons of Kindle.           Pros - 1) Compact storage of thousands of books: 2) It is easy to carry such a large number of books anywhere you want. 3) Opening book is just one click away. 4) Easy to highlight, bookmark and unbookmark any page. 5) Easy to change font and font size. 6) Reading progress shows wh...

Characters Explained: 1984 - 'The Big Brother'

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'The Big Brother'           'The Big Brother', totalitarian and authoritarian leader of 'The Party' is merely an invisible person throughout the book. We often come across with the character in book but don't get much knowledge about him except his face and his rules and regulations.           Big Brother's face is printed on party's banners everywhere. He is a person with big broad mustache and flat angry face. His portrait is painted at common hall of every ministry. He is a symbolic head of every party operations. He is everywhere on the paper but nowhere in presence. He is a person who order and under whose name the party actions are taken place. It is considered that every citizen of Oceania must love 'The Big Brother'.           Telescreens installed for surveillance of citizens has Big Brother's face on it. And voice coming from it is also considered as his...