ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

(George Orwell)

The book Animal Farm talks about animals which live on a farm of animals, and animals exile the farmer off the farm. Animals lead the farm themselves. But soon pigs take the lead and one of them becomes the leader. But equal relation disappears and soon equal relation is no more there.

I think the sentence “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” means the same as “All humans are equal, but some humans are more equal than others”.

I think the writer George Orwell gave the humans animal shapes. With this story he showed how the world is sometimes unfair.

I also think: the humans are equal and no one has the right to think he is better than others or that he is more equal.

(Veronika Pezdirc, 8.b)

People on Earth should be equal, but some people don’t think so. Usually they differ by their skin colour, by believes or by being rich or poor.

For example: in history black people were slaves and were abused. Later on even when these people were free they couldn’t go on buses, in stores, they couldn’t play sports… Poor people were usually peasants and they had to pay taxes. At the same time richer people lived in great luxury.

Today some things have changed but not a lot, there are still differences between the rich and the poor, the black and the white. All people have equal rights, they can speak and people have to listen to them, they have the right to go to school, to have a job and a family.

(Iva Habjanič, 8.a)

I think that the sentence “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” refers to people. All people in the world are equal, but a lot of them in the developed countries think that they’re better and more important than people from the third world countries. They despise and humiliate those people because they’re poor and they haven’t got a right to decide about important world things. On the other hand, it’s true that in rich countries people are more equal to each other because in poor countries there are big differences between rich and poor people. In these countries the biggest religion is Islam and this religion says that men are superior to women. So, we live in a strange world. Politicians say that all people are equal but they don’t really think that. And what I want to say is: Do we think that? Or do we believe that we’re better than people from undeveloped countries? If we believe that, then we must ask ourselves why we believe that. Do we think that we’re better because we have more money than them? Do we believe that we’re more intelligent, more superior because we live in developed countries? If the answer is yes then we live in a big lie- Because a lot of people from the third world countries are more intelligent, friendlier and more helpful than us. They aren’t guilty that they’re poor. They can’t change that. But we can help them. If we give just a little of our money and some things which we don’t need for charitable organisations, we’ll help some people. And this will probably be enough that we’ll make them happy.

(Lučka Žnidarčič, 8.a)

Children and adults are equal. Aren’t they?! Both are human, and both have human rights. But some parents think that they have more human rights than their children. That is not true, that’s old-fashioned and conservative. For example: most adults do not allow that children curse. At the same time they say: “Damned, you did it again! When will you remember that you mustn’t curse?!” Where can children find idols if their parents want them to be perfect but they are not perfect themselves? How can we respect our parents if they do wrong things? Another example is: sometimes children are lazy and they don’t want to help their parents. They think that they have the right to rest. But when children want to go shopping or visit a friend parents have to jump and drive them there. Children don’t realise that in fact they are equal. They think just about themselves. Don’t forget that we are equal, men and women, children and adults, black and white people. We all are human beings.

(Živa Potočnik Kralj, 8.b)

I think that all people in the world are not equal. We need to help those in distress. Some people in Africa live in very difficult circumstances, some richer people don’t know what to do with all the money. More than half of children must work because of poverty in poorer countries. These children don’t go to school usually. We need to show solidarity to other people, regardless of gender ad social level. We will make a better life and more favourable circumstances for survival for them too.

(Sandra Malešević, 8.b)

I think they are talking about us – people. All people should be equal: white and black. But in real life that’s not true. For example, equality between men and women. The men usually get better jobs than women although a lot of women have higher education. For the next example, look at the rich and the poor. Rich people think they are more important because they have more money. In the world, there are more poor than rich people. Whatever we are: black, white, Slovenian, men, women, Asians, poor, rich, fat, thin, blond, brunette, old, young, we should have the same opportunity in life. But this is not impossible.

(Katarina Šavs, 8.a)

I believe that the saysing targets mostly people. It actually means that some people have more influence than others. For instance, in a company the boss decides who gets to work or not. He makes all the decisions, while some employees have absolutely no influence. There is of course the difference between a worker in Europe and a worker in Asia. A worker in Asia works harder and longer with a smaller salary. The matter of equality between people is most obvious when it comes to differences between the future of new-born babies in families with a different financial status, religious aspect or basically any other difference. For example, women in more traditional countries have less rights than men, which means that they can never be equal members of the society. A baby, a boy and a girl, born in the same family in a muslim country could never have a similar future, just because of the way they were born.

According to the Declaration of human rights all people are born equal, but it’s the culture that makes some among us more equal than others.

(Vid Cirman, 8.a)