Over the last two days, we've huddled on the family room couch and listened to Orwell's Animal Farm on CD. (BTW, it was a TON easier listening compared to our attempt at the beginning of the summer to listen to Beowulf--yikes!)It was interesting to do so as a family...and we've found it challenging to define propaganda, and to explain its swaying effects despite obvious truth that argues in its face. It was also difficult to explain to the girls the real, historical truths that lie behind this satirical look into a group of farm animals that take over a small farm in England. Difficult, but worth it.
Just consider the wealth of topics that a story such as this one spun by Orwell can offer. Lots of good stuff here... communism, revolution, satire, propaganda techniques, critical thinking strategies, as well as themes of justice, oppression, fairness, law, sin and then of course the question: how then shall we live?
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