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The book Animal Farm, begins with a boar named Old Major assembling the animals of Manor Farm, that was owned by Mr. Jones, for a meeting in the big barn during the night. He gives a speech of a dream he had that all animals were free from human rule. All the farm animals agree with his speech. About three days later, Old Major dies. Following up his death, three pigs names, Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer take command and begin to establish Old Major's dream. Eventually, the farm animals work together to drive Mr. Jones out of his land. They then rename the farm Animal Farm, which they are now in complete control of. The newly established farm seemed to hold a good future for the Animals. The animals begin to learn how to read through the teaching of the pigs, and Napoleon teaches a group of young puppies to teach them about their new principles, Animalism, based on Old Major’s dream. In the Battle of Cowshed, Mr. Jones and other of his associates tried to retake the farm, but resulting in a victory for the farm animals and driving Mr. Jones of his land again. Some time after the battle, Snowball proposes to build a windmill, but Napoleon disagrees. Tensions grow between the two leaders and eventually, drove Snowball out of Animal Farm with the dogs he had taken in earlier in the book. Napoleon then takes command of the farm and declares that only pigs will make the decisions, and decides to build a windmill. Now all the animals work hard to complete the windmill. Unfortunately, the animals discover one morning that their partially build windmill had been destroyed by a storm, Napoleon used Snowball as an scapegoat: declaring that he had destroyed the windmill. After, many animals are killed by Napoleon's dogs when they were claimed to have been working with Snowball or submitting to Napoleon's command. Many times, Squealer, made many speeches defending Napoleon

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