Book feedback of the animal farm

It's the first time that I read the original book in English, which almost took me 1 month to complete reading.

The animal farm is a book written by George Orwell. It describes a story that the animals in manor farm couldn't bear abuse from human beings, especially Mr. Jones, so they launched an rebellion to escape?. However, the achievement of rebellion was usurped by an intelligent pig. Some critics said it revealed something about a failed socialist movement which is a bit of sensitive topic thus I don't want to give my opinion here.

What impressed me a lot were the stupid animals, obviously not pigs.They listened to whatever the pigs said, even when they found what the pigs did was violating the seven commands. They accepted the abuse of pigs and thought it's different from being abused by human beings.They were too daft to learn so many alphabets, so how could I dream that they were conscious of the tricks of pigs!

It was only Banjamin that I appreciated, but he was a horse with deep pessimism. Of course, there seemed nothing to be optimistic about, I still didn't like to hold a pessimistic view.

I would recommend The Pearl by John Steinbeck, it's just 90 pages and has a great message.