What evidence is there in the book that perhaps Napoleon is not as smart as he'd like everyone to believe?

Napoleon does not contribute to the revolution and does not offer any reasoning at meetings where animals are creating their ideology, he often acts as if he does not really understand what was happening.

Explanation:

Napoleon is one of the pigs depicted in "Animal Farm". He is a corrupt, tyrant who pretends to be extremely intelligent in order for other animals to believe his words. However, Napoleon never contributed to the construction of the concepts related to the ideology that animals were establishing. he never offered any reasoning at the meetings, or showed to understand what was actually being discussed.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

what are the main ideas?