About The Author: Animal Farm

I have tried to do some drawings based off Fahrenheit 451 but I just wasn't inspired or interested in it enough to be able to do much from it.

Although I said that I think a lot of people would be studying George Orwell for this project, I have decided to switch to studying him instead. I finished reading Animal Farm and its easily my favourite out of the three books that I've read so it just makes more sense to use a book that I've been inspired by.

About the Author: Ray Bradbury

After reading works from the three authors I was most interested in, I've decided to focus on Ray Bradbury. I wasn't a huge fan of Fahrenheit 451, but I am really interested in the other books he has written. I am going to order and read The Martian Chronicles, but in the mean time I think I will research Ray Bradbury himself and maybe do some drawings based off Fahrenheit 451.

While I enjoyed Brave New World, I found it difficult to visualise in my head and I'm not very interested in the sound of his other books so it wouldn't make sense to choose Aldous Huxley to research further.

I really liked Animal Farm but found 1984 too dense to read, and I feel like a lot of people will be choosing Orwell to focus on for this project which is why I have ruled him out as well.

About The Author: George Orwell

I think I previously mentioned in another blog post that I have already read half of Animal Farm by George Orwell. I really enjoyed the book but because I borrowed it off someone I can't read the other half unless I buy the book.

Animal Farm is about a farm which is originally run by a farmer, but then overthrown by the animals living there and they are now in charge. The farm is then run in a communist manner, where all animals are treated equally and live by a set of rules written on one of the barn walls which follow the lines of just doing things differently to humans. However, over the course of the book the pigs begin to elevate themselves above the other animals and start living more like humans.

I think it is a really interesting book and I love the way Orwell has portrayed real events and depictions of society using the animals in the farm as a metaphor. I think this could be quite fun to try and illustrate.

I have also read a few chapters of 1984. I'm also really enjoying this book but I'm finding it harder to visualise than Animal Farm because its set in quite a surreal dystopian society, and I think I would have to read the entire book to understand it properly. I'm not sure I have time to do this, so I think the best idea would be to choose a different author to research further.