https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo Background Information en-us 2020-04-17 18:17:47 UTC 2025-12-01 20:52:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f437.png ryan_hamberg https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486558 Orwell wrote Animal Farm to show how Stalin had betrayed the ideas of the socialist revolution in the Soviet Union. George Orwell said "I thought of exposing the Soviet myth in a story that could be easily understood by almost anyone and which could be easily translated into other languages."]]> 2020-04-17 18:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486558 ryan_hamberg https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486559 Eric Arthur Blair decided to use a pen name. He did this because his family wouldn't be embarrassed by his time in poverty. He chose the name George Orwell to show his love of English traditions.]]> 2020-04-17 18:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486559 ryan_hamberg https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486561 George voluntarily fought in the Spanish Civil War. His first word was  “Beastly” . Orwell practiced black magic on a wax effigy of a school bully and he died so Orwell thought he killed him with Voodoo magic. A statue of Orwell was reviled in November 2017 standing outside of Broadcasting House. Even though Orwell and his wife never had biological children, they did adopt an baby.]]> 2020-04-17 18:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486561 ryan_hamberg https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486562 Sorry its small I don't know how to make it bigger.]]> 2020-04-17 18:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486562 ryan_hamberg https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486563 2020-04-17 18:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486563 ryan_hamberg https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486564 An allegory is a story that can be interpreted to show a hidden meaning. Animal farm is set up so the book has similar characters and describes what's happening in the Russian Revolution. The author shows how power can lead to corruption and uses animals to show how its happening in Russia.]]> 2020-04-17 18:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486564 ryan_hamberg https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486565 George hated how after the speeches and the promises made Stalin didn't do any of them and did't give land and kept a strong hold on food and business which lead to food shortages and starvation of his people.]]> 2020-04-17 18:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486565 ryan_hamberg https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486566 Orwell had multiple bouts of bronchitis and other respiratory problems. As a young man he smoked a lot and Orwell had several episodes of bacterial pneumonia and contracted dengue fever while in Burma.]]> 2020-04-17 18:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486566 ryan_hamberg https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486568 2020-04-17 18:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486568 ryan_hamberg https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486569 George is the son of a British civil servant and he only spent his first year of his life in India but his parents were both British.]]> 2020-04-17 18:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513486569 ryan_hamberg https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513705457 2020-04-17 20:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_hamberg/eurk11w6btilieyo/wish/513705457