In the
    opening of ,is described as the best known of the male pigs (aside fromand Snowball). He could
    "turn black into white" because he was a very persuasive talker. 
He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult
point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very
persuasive.
Notice that asis being hailed for his
    persuasive speech, it is his "skipping from side to side and whisking his tail" that
    made him persuasive. This indicates that he was good at distracting those he spoke to and he was
    very good at changing his positions (going from side to side) in order to win arguments or in
    order to justify his new positions. 
There are many times in the novel when
    the commandments are changed and Squealer is able to fool the animals that the commandments have
    not been changed. Therefore, he is able to change his position (from black to white) without the
    animals even knowing it. At the end of , the pigs start sleeping in beds. This contradicts the
    initial fourth commandment which stated that "No animal shall sleep in a bed." When
    Clover suspects something, Muriel spells out the commandment which had been updated to state
    that "No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets." Squealer
    assures them that the commandment was always stated in this way: to only outlaw beds with
    sheets. 
You did not suppose, surely, that there was ever
a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a place to sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a
bed, properly regarded. The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention.
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