The Animal Farm movie is about a farm of animals rebelling against their way of life. This change is sparked when Old Major makes a speech about freedom from humans and animal equality right before his death. The next day the animals break free from their stalls and drive Jones out. The animals become independent from humans and Snowball creates seven commandments for all animals to follow. Then Snowball makes plans to build a windmill and Napolean opposes the idea, he calls his nine dogs, which drive Snowball out of animal farm.

The animals at forced to continue work on the farm for the windmill under the tyranny of Napolean. Napolean makes the animals work 12 hour days, and he bends the commandments to his liking. Then seeing how well animal farm was working, a mob of men attacked Animal farm, and then Jones blew up the windmill. Then Boxer was injured and a paramedic truck came, at least it looked like that, but in reality it was a vehicle of the morticians. With the money made from boxers body the pigs drank alcohol. Then the pigs became indistinguishable between humans and the animals revolted against the pigs and overthrew Napolean.

The movies was different than the book in many respects. Overall, I would give this movie a 4/5, because it had a better ending than the book and was more humorous.

I am going to be answering the question, “What makes a good leader and what are a leader’s character traits?”

• Being able to get others to follow you and believe in your visions, ideas and plans.
• Looking towards the future and coming up with new ideas, even when nobody believes in your idea.
• Being able to not procrastinate and produce something amazing or useful.
• Being able to be calm when a project meets a block or your project/idea doesn’t work out and everyone around you is in chaos.
• Be able to be in your comfort zone out of your comfort zone.
• Setting goals for yourself and following through with them and having the willpower to resist things that would be against your goals.
• Helping people if they need it, without doing their work for them.
• Be in control of yourself, if your not how are you supposed to lead others?
• Be able to co-operate with your team, and be able to deal with complications and unexpected problems.

Character Traits:

• The ability of fluent public speaking
• Grit
• Social skills
• Intelligence
• Determination
• Kindness
• Courage
• Self control
• Humbleness
• Patience
• Definiteness of plans
• Mastery of detail
• Co-operation
• Able to assume responsibility for actions as the leader

JG’s by M.D. Marrone is a story about Luke whose sister, Claire; has a hearing deficiency and he participates in a lifeguarding camp in the summer. With his sister having a disability she goes through problems most people would never experience. One kid named, Jimmy is going through his own complications, because of his parents. He decides to cause others misery because of his misfortune and calls Claire, ‘retarded because of she can’t pronounce words correctly’. Luke does not take kindly to this and in turn is training to beat Jimmy in a race that he’s previously won.

Later at the end of the book Jimmy and Luke become friends and is a great ending to the book. My favorite part of the book was ending, because I have actually participated in an event like the Taplin in JG’s and gotten 5th place out of 300 of the fastest B’s. Overall, I would rate this book three stars, because to me there wasn’t much excitement or anything urging me to turn the next page.