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The unprejudiced perspective in which the story is told also makes for a less complicated read. Animal Farm is not told from any particular animal’s perspective and it doesn’t have a protagonist. It is told from the perspective of the common animals as a group: for example, that “[t]he animals were stupefied. . . . It was some minutes before they could take it all in.” This method enables Orwell to paint a large portrait of the average people who suffer under communism. Through this choice of narrative perspective, Orwell’s narrator tells things as they are, as an unbiased observer, without adding personal views to influence and complicate the telling of the story. Most other accounts of history are guaranteed to be biased in some sense, not always telling the whole story, or leaving out debasing details. Reading an account of history written with a predisposed analysis will make it more difficult for the reader to formulate their own beliefs and views about an event