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Leaders And Followers In Animal Farm

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In Animal farm by George Orwell there is a big leader and many followers. I will only be focusing on two main characters in my opinion. Which is leader and a follower and how the leader takes over and the follower loses his freedom.

The leader in my opinion is Napoleon. I chose him because he runs the whole farm and changes the rules that all the animals agreed on and wouldn’t break the rules. Napoleon gains all this power by raising 9 big black scary dogs and Napoleon gets them on animals when they do not follow his rules. This is reason why none of animals stand up to him because of those dogs. Since he has those big dogs he can do whatever he wants to the farm and tell the animals what to do. Napoleon does not give the hard working animals food or any free time you have to keep that in mind as well. He makes the animals work basically for free ! Napoleon is just chilling this whole time while all the animals are working , he is drinking, eating ,sleeping in Mr.Jones bed. Nobody in the farm likes him , everyone is just too scared to stand up to him. This is …show more content…

I chose Benjamin because he is working a lot on the farm and making the windmill. Of course him and Boxer are the hardest working and that is because of their strength. Benjamin does not like what he sees what is happening to the farm , not one bit of it. He is too scared to step to Napoleon because of his nine dogs. So Benjamin is working really hard following the orders Napoleon gives him, he isn’t getting fed or anything barely getting enough sleep. So Benjamin gets tired of this and talks to all animals in the farm and they talk about standing up to him. They all get together and attack Napoleon and the nine dogs could not stop ALL the animals. So finally Napoleon gets kicked out of the farm all because Benjamin took a little bit of action to stop it all. That’s takes a little bit of leadership if you ask me. So I guess he was a Leader and

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