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George Orwell's Animal Farm was taught when I was in secondary school. The story unfolds with a group of farm animals stirring up a revolution against their human owner and establishing a new society where everyone is equal. However, the animals soon come to realize that nothing has changed and that some animals, led by Napoleon the Pig, were behaving much like their former human master as they began to walk on two legs. One can identify the parallels in this book with the political development in Hong Kong; the local citizens have replaced the colonial master, yet commoners’ livelihood remain in the hands of a few real estate developers. In the name of "free economy and competiveness", the government is taking a back seat while more and more people are squeezed into subdivided, caged-like apartments.