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   At the end of Ch. 3,Squealer manages to convince the other animals why the milk was necessary for the pigs:

   "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades."

   In the earlier part of Ch.3 we read of the attempts made to make the animals on the farm literate:

   "The reading and writing classes, however, were a great success. By the autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree."

   However, a little later, except for the pigs who "could already read and write perfectly ...... None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A."
   

   It is this passage which foreshadows the pigs' subtle and cunning decision to literally hog all the milk and apples on the farm by taking advantage of the illiteracy of the other poor gullible animals.

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   Posted by lit24 on Friday June 19, 2009 at 7:46 PM