An Analysis Of Snowball's 'He Got Game'

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The excerpt for ”He got game” relates to the animals' complacent attitude as the commandments change and the way of doing things on the farm change for the worse by complacency. In “He Got Game”,” Everything approved/ People used/ Even murders excused.” In the book Animal Farm the commandments were no animal shall kill another, then when Napoleon becomes leader after running Snowball off then he finds out that the hens and a few of the other animals have been helping Snowball in his revenge, Napoleon kills them and then changes the commandment to no animal shall kill another without reason. Even though the commandments were to never be changed. Another example of complacency from the text “He Got Game” is “1 outta 1 million residents/

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