In the novel, Snowball is chased off the farm by Napoleon and his protective dogs. When Napoleon returns, he tells the other farm animals about his idea for building a windmill. Even though this is actually Snowball’s idea, Napoleon lies and says that he was the one to come up with the plan. The next day, Napoleon orders the animals begin work on the windmill. The animals work on the windmill day in and day out for a year. By this point, the windmill is half-built. One night, there is a huge gale. During this storm, the strong winds knock down the windmill. When the animals return to the work site the following morning to continue their work on the windmill, they notice that the wind has destroyed the windmill. Napoleon gathers the farm animals for a meeting. He says that Snowball returned during the night and destroyed the windmill. By lying about the storm, Napoleon ensures that all the other animals now hate Snowball. Napoleon further lies when he tells the farm animals that Snowball sneaks onto the farm in order to steal milk. However, Snowball was not stealing the milk. The milk was being mixed into the pigs’ food. Finally, Napoleon deepens the lies about Snowball when he tells the other animals that Snowball is a spy for Mr. Jones. However, Snowball is not a spy. He ran away and went to a different farm to live. This does not stop Napoleon from lying about Snowball frequently in order to make the …show more content…
Napoleon is a freeloader because he lives in the farmhouse and rarely leaves his home to help with the workload of running the farm. Even though he does not work, he still obtains plenty of food while the other working animals run out of food when he cuts their rations. While living in the farmhouse, Napoleon and other pigs find a barrel of whiskey and keep it to themselves. The pigs consume the alcohol until they become sick to their stomachs. Meanwhile, the other animals have to sleep out in the cold on rough hay. Napoleon lives in much plusher conditions. He and his fellow pigs live in the warm house in comfortable beds. This is irritating to the working animals because they work hard and do not receive many benefits. Napoleon reaps their benefits. He is the one who gets to sleep in a warm bed in a warm house, drink whiskey, and eat a surplus of food. Not only does Napoleon become a dictator and a liar, he becomes a freeloader who takes what he wants when he wants