Have you ever met someone with an ulterior motive? Or maybe there was someone who tricked you into doing their dirty work? What if that person uses your loyalty to them to make you their slave? In Animal Farm, an allegorical book by George Orwell, many animals are tricked into becoming faithful slaves to an all-powerful pig named Napoleon. All the farm animals, except a select few, were trapped in Napoleon's cruel hooves without even realizing it, and so they should have learned to double-check before they became loyal. At the beginning of the story, Napoleon begins to show his motivations to the readers. , but animals still have the impression that Animalism continues to thrive. When the animals noticed that rations were dwindling, Squealer lied and said that it only seemed that way, and that times were even better than they had been with Mr. Jones. This is demonstrated when Orwell writes, “There were times when the animals seemed to work longer hours and feed no better than they had in Jones' time” (Orwell 92). This excerpt shows that animals are beginning to perceive of...