gives a passionate speech that seems to have won the day. But Napoleon gives a strange signal and nine attack dogs-the puppies Napoleon has been “educating”-burst in to the barn and attack Snowball, chasing him from the farm. Napoleon becomes the leader of Animal Farm, and declares that there will be no more meetings, from now on, the pigs will make all the decisions in private-for everyone’s best interest.Napoleon changes his mind about the windmill, and the animals, especially Boxer, devote their efforts to completing it. After a storm one night, the windmill is found toppled. Them human farmers in the area declare smugly that the animals made the walls too thin, but Napoleon claims that Snowball returned to the farm to sabotage the windmill. He stages a great purge during which an animal found to be in Snowball’s great conspiracy-meaning any animal who opposes Napoleon’s uncontested leadership-is killed by the dogs. His leadership unquestioned (Boxer makes “Napoleon is always right” his second maxim), Napoleon begins to act more and more like a human being-sleeping in a bed, drinking whisky, and engaging in trade with neighboring farmers. His propagandist, the pig Squealer, justifies every action to the common animals, , convincing them that Napoleon is a great leader-this despite the fact that they are cold, hungry, overworked and miserable.Mr. Frederick, a neighboring farmer, cheats Napoleon in the purchase of tome timber, and then attacks the farm and dynamites the windmill, now rebuilt. After the windmill explodes a pitched battle ensues, during which Boxer is badly wounded. The animals rout the farmers, but Boxer is weakened, and when he falls while working on the windmill not long after the battle the outlook is grim. Napoleon sells his most loyal worker to a glue-maker for whisky money, while claiming to have sent him to a human hospital, where, according to Squealer, he died in peace...
