Teacher of English & Media, Ms Dakin’s choice is Animal Farm; a book that should be read by everyone and is very apt for the world we live in today.
Our Year 7 book club have recently been reading it too…
Animal Farm by George Orwell
“Orwell had an exceptional insight over 70 years ago into the strategies that the Media and governments can use to control people. Animal Farm is more relevant now than it was at the time that it was written. It is a skill to be able to condense decades of complicated history into a novella, as his aim was to ensure that everyone had access to this information. Once you have read it, it makes you question all embedded meta-narratives; every time I read it again, I learn something new which is the sign of a great book.”
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
