The True Meaning Of Snowball's Animal Farm

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When the day came where Napoleon was going to die and Squealer was going to die, from fatness. The animals would rejoice and be free, but until that day life was going to be miserable. Everyone didn’t know that the pigs were breaking the commandments which they set up, but rather their stupidity got the best of them. The only animal that knew what was going on was Benjamin. Life was just the same work, eat, more work, sleep, and repeat. There had been word that Snowball was planning his own rebellion to overthrow Napoleon. No one could tell Napoleon, or else there would be another mass execution. The rats had been spreading that rumor around. There was some doubt in the air about whether or not the rats could be trusted, but for the sake

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