Literature
Zootopia: A Modern 'Animal Farm'
Want to teach your kids about the dangers of reverse racism? Show them Zootopia.
WARNING! Major spoiler alert! I'll be pretty much giving away the entire movie plot here, so read at your own risk.
In 1945, George Orwell published Animal Farm, an allegorical novel that used animals to depict issues in his society. Disey's recent movie Zootopia (or Zootropolis for my U.K. buddies) is a modern-day Animal Farm, in a sense. Animal Farm was an allegory of George Orwell's society, just like Zootopia is an allegory of our society. Both deal with issues relevant to the societies they were written for. Of course, the film is first and foremost a cute