Thursday, April 5, 2012

What happened to the windmill in "Animal Farm"? What caused it to happen?It is in chapter 6.

The windmill, which has not been built very well, is knocked down by a violent storm.  Since Napoleon took credit for the windmill plans, it would be logical to blame Napoleon for its destruction.  However, Napoleon avoids this by blaming the destruction on the deliberate attack of Snowball.  Napoleon makes Snowball a scapegoat, and uses the incident to make Snowball the official enemy of all the animals.  He even plants pig tracks near the windmill, and claims that they are certainly Snowball's.  "Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball."

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