This is for the book animal farm. where does napoleon get his plans? why is this ironic? what is orwell saying through this? also in advance for the !

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.