To truly understand the role that these two books, 1984, and Animal Farm played in our society, we must first understand the man that wrote them. ... This short novel was rejected twice, mainly on the grounds that it was only 35,000 words and used only a moderate part of all of the notes, journals and other things that he had collected and intended to use. ... Now Eric plunged into finishing the book, and despite the fact that it took about 2 more years, it was exactly the book he had wanted to write initially. ... In 1943 he began to write Animal Farm, and the next year Orwell and his w...

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• Grade Level: High School