Blog #50

Today I did some math homework in the morning, and then headed to my practice in the afternoon. It was very tiring, because we had to do about 30 slapshots against the boards for practice
I also finished reading (in one day) an excellent short novel called Animal Farm by George Orwell. First I thought it was for preschool kids. Then, as I read on, I realized the many many examples of stinging satire aimed at governments and politics and beyond. The story was set in a farm, and many of its characters were farm animals who could talk and think at a very profound level. At first, the animals, full of hatred toward their farm owner, rebelled. They succeeded in driving out Mr. Jones, the farmer, and took over the farm themselves. However, one of their leaders, a pig named Napoleon slowly took over and changed the farm into a totalitarian regime (not surprising, since Orwell wrote the book when the memories of world war II were still fresh).