Napoleon's Rebellion In Animal Farm By George Orwell

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Five months after the end of Animal Farm and the rebirth of Manor Farm Napoleon found himself deathly ill. Already knowing before this sickness that one day he would keel over, he set rules in place sometime in the early years of his dictatorship to appoint one of his right hoof pigs as a replacement in case of death. Squealer caught wind of his leader’s failing health by hearing horrid coughing and atrocious squealing from Napoleon’s room.
Napoleon had rather weakly told his loyal town crier of his rapidly failing health and Squealer secretly pondered a devious plan, the pig had always wondered what would happen if comrade Napoleon was to parish, would he be the new Leader or would he still be the one spewing propaganda for the leader until he too perished? He would simply have to wait and find out if he was next in
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Big John was a young, strong and intelligent dark colored bull that found work on the walls protecting the farm from the fabled human attack, in the beginning of his work John thought this was a good cause he thought the attack might come and he would be called a hero for fighting the humans and protecting the farm; as the months past he lost this idea and grew to know the truth, the humans were not going the attack the farm. This realization gave him malaise towards his leaders and he started to form a group of others that believed his truths, he spoke of the modern lies and deception found on the farm. He also spoke of the original lies founded by Napoleon. In the months before Big John began his rebellion he was walking around the wall and found a note, this note was from someone that only signed Snow on this piece of

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