Books, Etc.
People often claim that Animal Farm is about how communism necessarily leads to oppression, implying that capitalism is the moral alternative— which completely ignores that in the story, the oppression the pigs brought was, explicitly, the same oppression under which the animals suffered at the beginning of the story: capitalism.
Everything your study guide didn’t tell you about Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Billie Eilish is going to star as Esther Greenwood in an upcoming movie adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. The film, directed by Sarah Polley, is currently in production.
If you had approached me even one year ago and told me that I would go vegan, I would never have believed you.
Just a short essay I wrote about graduating high school
Last December, I felt completely alone. In the U.S., cases were skyrocketing and I hadn’t left my house for weeks, even to go outside. I’d stopped going to my extracurriculars a while ago as the pandemic ramped up, and school was still online. Though it was my favorite month of the year, even Christmas music couldn’t cheer me up.
Is this a discussion post?
I was recently thinking about how I want to expand the kinds of books I read, and that gave me this idea.