Answer: hi, I had to read this book as well. The story is told from the point of view of the common animals of Animal Farm, though it refers to them in the third person plural as “they.” 2. For the most part, the tone of the novel is objective, stating external facts and rarely digressing into philosophical meditations. The mixture of this tone with the outrageous trajectory of the plot, however, steeps the story in an ever-mounting irony. 3. There is no clear central character in the novel, but Napoleon, the dictatorial pig, is the figure who drives and ties together most of the action. 4. There are a number of conflicts in Animal Farm—the animals versus Mr. Jones, Snowball versus Napoleon, the common animals versus the pigs, Animal Farm versus the neighboring humans—but all of them are expressions of the underlying tension between the exploited and exploiting classes and between the lofty ideals and harsh realities of socialism. 5.