Animal Farm Squealer

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To start off with squealer was used to trick the animals that everything that went wrong was snowballs fault or that whatever Napoleon said was the truth. This is demonstrated by Squealer change the commandments. The original would say "no animal shall sleep in a bed", but when squealer was done with it, it would say "No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets". It is defined that "to change a rule, you change yourself" in this case self is the farm. If all the sudden change the way something works you crack the foundation. The more you change, the more it starts to crumble. So the idea is slowly being broken down into a dictatorship. When the windmill was destroyed Napoleon said that it was Snowballs fault. Then after that he placed the death

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