What technique is used in the passage to promote
propaganda?
what is the purpose of squealer's use of propaganda?

- Card Stacking.

- To make the animals think that production is booming.

Explanation:

There are a variety of techniques employed to propagate a propaganda and convey/communicate the intended message or idea effectively. Card Stacking is one of these techniques that primarily intends to influence the audience by indulging their attention towards one side of the issue/idea and suppressing or restraining the another. Such techniques only show the favorable side of the story to the audience(however the emphasizing only one perspective makes it biased) and ignores the another in order to gain desired response from the audience.

In the given passage, 'card stacking technique' is employed as squealer intends to manipulate the animals by showing them that 'production is booming' and gain their favorable response which however is just one perspective of the actual scenario. The primary purpose of employing such propaganda technique is only to influence the decisions of the animals in his favor and in doing so Squealer deliberately ignores/represses the other dimension as he fears that it may go against him.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”