Animal Farm

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Theme: Lies and Deceit

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1. Narrator

2. Squealer

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All the other male pigs on the farm were

porkers. The best known among them was a
small fat pig named Squealer, with very round
cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements,
and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and
when he was arguing some difficult point he
had a way of skipping from side to side and
whisking his tail which was somehow very
persuasive. The others said of Squealer that he
could turn black into white.
"Comrades!" he cried. "You do not imagine, I
hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of
selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually
dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself.
Our sole object in taking these things is to
preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has
been proved by Science, comrades) contain
substances absolutely necessary to the wellbeing of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The
whole management and organization of this
farm depend on us. Day and night we are
watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR
sake that we drink that milk and eat those
apples."

Describe what your primary source quote

does to support your theme.
What does it explain to the reader about your
analysis?
Why is it important for the reader to
understand your character and this quote?
- This quote establishes Squealer as the pig
who will be passing on the lies from
Napoleon because of his smooth talking
ability and his charm
- Its important to know that Squealers role
is being established here because he
shows up many other times to smooth
out the confusion with the other animals

Here is one of the first instances where

Squealer is going around and telling the
animals a lie to cover all of the pigs.
Suspicions are rising and the animals are
beginning to question the motives of their
leaders
Is a reinforcement of the role and amount
of influence that Squealer has over all the
animals on the farm.

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4. Squealer

5. Narrator

6. Narrator and
Napoleon

"Comrades," he said, "I trust that every animal

here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade
Napoleon has made in taking this extra labor
upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that
leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a
deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes
more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all
animals are equal. He would be only too happy
to let you make your decisions for yourselves.
But sometimes you might make the wrong
decisions, comrades, and then where should we
be? Suppose you had decided to follow
Snowball, with his moonshine of windmills
Snowball, who, as we now know, was no better
than a criminal?"
"You have heard then, comrades," he said,
"that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the
farmhouse? And why not? You did not
suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling
against beds? A bed merely means a place to
sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed,
properly regarded. The rule was against sheets,
which are a human invention. We have
removed the sheets from the farmhouse beds,
and sleep between blankets. And very
comfortable beds they are too! But not more
comfortable than we need, I can tell you,
comrades, with all the brainwork we have to do
nowadays. You would not rob us of our repose,
would you, comrades? You would not have us
too tired to carry out our duties? Surely none of
you wishes to see Jones back?"
But just at this moment Napoleon stood up
and, casting a peculiar sidelong look at
Snowball, uttered a high-pitched whimper of a
kind no one had ever heard him utter before. At
this there was a terrible baying sound outside,
and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded
collars came bounding into the barn. They
dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang
from his place just in time to escape their
snapping jaws. At first no one had been able
to imagine where these creatures came from,
but the problem was soon solved: they were
the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away
from their mothers and reared privately.
Though not yet full-grown, they were huge
dogs, and as fierce-looking as wolves. They
kept close to Napoleon.
"Comrades," he said quietly, "do you know
who is responsible for this? Do you know the
enemy who has come in the night and

Squealer is covering Napoleons butt once

again from the suspicious animals
This is a big turning point of establishing
who side the animals are on. Squealer is
coming to Napoleons defense while
trashing Snowballs name and his
intentions

Here is when the animals get the closest

so far to catching the pigs in a lie. So far
they have gotten out of working, granted
more food than the other, and now they
get to sleep on beds which strictly goes
against the seven commandments
Somehow squealer is able to fool the
animals again that the commandments
had always included the excerpt about
sheets on the bed.

This is the first time we see Napoleon be

blatantly evil in front of everyone. This
whole time he has lied about what he was
doing with the puppies.
He has lied to the mothers of the puppies
especially. The whole time he was
supposed to be educating them and taking
care of them. Instead hes turned them
into vicious attack dogs.
This is the turning point of the story.
From this point Napoleon begins to rule
by force instead of with finesse and
persuasiveness.

Napoleon lies to all the animals and outs

them against Snowball by saying hes the
cause of the windmill falling, without any

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8. Narrator

overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!" he

suddenly roared in a voice of thunder.
"Snowball has done this thing! In sheer
malignity, thinking to set back our plans and
avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion,
this traitor has crept here under cover of night
and destroyed our work of nearly a year.
Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death
sentence upon Snowball. 'Animal Hero,
Second Class,' and half a bushel of apples to
any animal who brings him to justice. A full
bushel to anyone who captures him alive!" The
animals were shocked beyond measure to learn
that even Snowball could be guilty of such an
action. There was a cry of indignation, and
everyone began thinking out ways of catching
Snowball if he should ever come back. Almost
immediately the footprints of a pig were
discovered in the grass at a little distance from
the knoll. They could only be traced for a few
yards, but appeared to lead to a hole in the
hedge. Napoleon snuffed deeply at them and
pronounced them to be Snowball's. He gave it
as his opinion that Snowball had probably
come from the direction of Foxwood Farm.
They all remembered, or thought they
remembered, how they had
seen Snowball charging ahead of them at the
Battle of the Cowshed, how he had
rallied and encouraged them at every turn, and
how he had not paused for an
instant even when the pellets from Jones's gun
had wounded his back. At first
it was a little difficult to see how this tied in
with his being on Jones's side.
Even Boxer, who seldom asked questions, was
puzzled. He lay down, tucked
his fore hoofs beneath him, shut his eyes, and
with a hard effort managed to formulate his
thoughts.
Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran:
`No animal shall kill any other animal without
cause.' Somehow or other, the last two words
had slipped out of the animals' memory. But
they saw now that the Commandment had not
been violated; for clearly there was good
reason for killing the traitors who had leagued
themselves with Snowball.
They had thought the Fifth Commandment was
`No animal shall drink alcohol,' but there were
two words that they had forgotten. Actually the

proof. If any of the animals had an ounce

of intelligence they would know that the
awful storm the night before cause the fall
of the windmill
Napoleon goes on to say that Snowball
stole his idea from him and when asked
why he still debated against the idea of it,
he lies and manages to fool them still.

This quote shows the progression of the

intelligence of the animals
Finally theyre starting to see that things
that Napoleon and Squealer say arent
adding up like they should.
This is important because its the point
where the story begins to take a turn and
Napoleon must take actions as the leader
to reinforce his power

This is the second time that weve seen

something like this. Napoleon and his
pigs have manipulated the
commandments so that they can kill and
do whatever they want without being
called out for their actions
This is going to make Napoleon start to
do some harsh and very rash things in
order for him to reestablish order and
peace

Commandment read: `No animal shall drink

alcohol to excess.'
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10. Narrator

Two days later the animals were called

together for a special meeting in the barn. They
were struck dumb with surprise when
Napoleon announced that he had sold the pile
of timber to Frederick. Tomorrow Frederick's
wagons would arrive and begin carting it away.
Throughout the whole period of his seeming
friendship with Pilkington, Napoleon had
really been in secret agreement with Frederick.
The animals now also learned that Snowball
had never as many of them had believed
hitherto received the order of `Animal Hero,
First Class.' This was merely a legend which
had been spread sometime after the Battle of
the Cowshed by Snowball himself. So far from
being decorated, he had been censured for
showing cowardice in the battle. Once again
some of the animals heard this with a certain
bewilderment, but Squealer was soon able to
convince them that their memories had been at
fault.

This whole time the animals were made to

believe that Frederick was bad and they
wanted to kill him
Now all of a sudden because Napoleon
says they need to befriend him, they do.

The animals remembered correctly.

Squealer was able to manipulate their
memories into remembering only what
Napoleon wanted them to remember
It was a lie so that the only animal granted
any medals was Napoleon himself