Snowball



Snowball is one of the main characters of Animal Farm. Snowball is an inventive pig who influences others to his side with intelligence and compassion. He also believes in a continued revolution: he argues that in order to defend Animal Farm, he must strengthen the reality of Old Major's dream of a life without humans and that they must stir up rebellions in other farms throughout England. However, Napoleon always disagrees with any ideas that Snowball has because he does not want Snowball to lead Animal Farm and gain more popularity than himself. Snowball also renames the farm Animal Farm, writes the first version of the Seven Commandments, teaches the animals to read and write, learns to milk the cows, and comes up with the idea for a windmill. Snowball is eventually forced out of the farm when Napoleon uses his guard dogs to attack Snowball. Later, when Mr. Jones detonates the first version