Misjudgment In 'Animal Farm And The Outsiders'

Misjudgment is when a person forms an incorrect opinion about someone or something. People are frequently misjudged and that can lead to many problems. This might include things such as people trusting someone whom they should not or somebody getting shunned. In the novels Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton characters were severely misjudged in many different ways and the reader learns a valuable lesson from this misjudgment.
In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, Napoleon, the leader of the farm, is misjudged and the animals think he is good and just when he is not, leading to the reader learning how leaders can be depicted as good when they are bad. Through the use of propaganda dispensed by his subordinate, Squealer, Napoleon was able to do horrible things without ruining his public image. An example of this is when the book states, “It was almost unbelievable, said Squealer, that any animal could be so stupid… surely they knew their beloved Leader, Comrade Napoleon, better than

E. Hinton were misjudged because people thought they were different from everyone else, but the reader learns that almost everyone is the same. The greasers were treated differently from everyone else because they were typically not well off and were rowdy. The greasers are no different from the Socs, who everyone holds in high regard because both groups take part in similar activities. They both take part in brawls and the Socs will sometimes jump the greasers and cause serious injury. The fact that nobody is very different can be shown in the quote, “The sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps were the same one… We saw the same sunset” (Hinton 40-41). This quote represents how everybody is the same and there are very few differences between them. The sun and therefore sunsets are something everyone sees every day and therefore, something that makes them the