Yes. I agree. But It needs to be a paragraph doesn't it? That;s not a paragraph.
A) He wants to undermine Snowball's credibility by mentioning him.
B) He wants to suppress a potential uprising of the animals.
C) He wants to distract the animals from learning the truth.
Because his father wasn't much of a dad and his mom died. He was on the streets at age 10, bragging about the fact that he got arrested for the 1st time, and he got arrested a lot after that. He couldn't seem to find his way and didn't like his life. He broke law just because he wanted to show that "he didn't care if there was a law or not."
A. present participle as it ends in -ing