Animal Farm And The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

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Animal Farm by George Orwel and The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boynare are a kind of books which I will reread over and over again throughout my whole life, because every time my understanding and of them will be different. Both books are wide open to the reader's imagination and have humongous amounts of symbols in them, which could be comprehended as different things depending on the reader's beliefs and previous general/historical knowledge. Even though, the two books are completely different in style, authors, topics/theme and even genre they can be connected and both subtly show the problems with a community which strives to be utopian, however, end up being dystopian.

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