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Similarities Between Napoleon And Snowball In Animal Farm
Snowball- the brother of Napoleon who always had disagreements whenever coming to making decisions for the farm, was seen as someone who wanted a better life for the animals and less work that the humans used to do. Although the animals had four legs, they couldn’t have done the work in a much faster rate. Snowball drew a plan, whereby he decided to create a windmill. His character seemed much better than his brother Napoleon. Who wanted the animals to work, instead of giving them less. He stated that the windmill will be a waste of time, by which they had to stock up crops for the winter instead of constructing the windmill, which will take to much time during the process.
Squealer- On the other hand, to me I think that Squealer was a bit

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