Thinking about Literature

         Before this class, I have never read a book and noticed so many little details. I've learned to not only automatically look for literary device that the author uses, but why the author has used it, and how it adds to the meaning of the book. I think that Animal Farm is a great book to practice noticing author's craft and understanding why the author wrote it the way he did. Over the course of the year my thinking has changed to understand the true meaning of the author's decision. My annotations now analyze much deeper and more thought proking questions.
          An example of this, is shown in Animal addressing why Orwell chose to use the pigs as the main characters in the book. Why were they the leaders of the group, and shown as the ones that are mean and overpowering. Thinking deeper, I noticed that Orwell chose to use pigs to represent overpowering leaders because in real life they are very lazy, and mostly seen as a negative connotation. This shows why Orwell chose to use pigs as the overpowering leaders.