the little girl was a tomboy, not wanting to grow up to be like her mother, stubborn, fighting to be different, to be respected, to be her own person, to be more than her mother represented to her in a world where women were not respected
Led by the pigs, especially Napoleon and Snowball, the animals meet secretly for three months and learn the new system of thought called Animalism. Boxer and Clover, the two horses, help to convince the other animals.