Can you explain why the sending of Boxer to the slaughterer’s in Animal Farm was an important turning point?
June 292010
The sending of Boxer to the slaughterer’s by Napoleon in the book Animal Farm was an important turning point in the book. Why?
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Boxer Character Analysis
…As time goes on, the other animals continue to look up to Boxer. They are much more inspired by his work ethic than by Squealer’s clever speeches, and because Boxer remains loyal to the pigs, everyone else follows suit. When Napoleon begins executing other animals, Boxer can only say, “I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm. It must be due to some fault in ourselves. The solution, as I see it, is to work harder” (7.28). One realizes that the reason Boxer adopts personal mottos is because he needs simple slogans to live by. When things become too complex, all he can do is fall back on them.
After the windmill is destroyed in the Battle of the Windmill, Boxer makes it his one remaining goal to have a new windmill under way before he retires. Yet in the process, he over-strains himself and it is then that Old Major’s prophecy comes back to haunt him. The pigs have come to replace Mr. Jones, and their solution for a tired old horse is the same. Yet the pigs need to at least appear to be faithful to the animals, and so they lie and say that Boxer is being taken to the hospital. By the time Benjamin and Clover cry to Boxer that the van belongs to a horse slaughterer, it is too late. The narrator tells us:
The time had been when a few kicks from Boxer’s hoofs would have smashed the van to matchwood. But alas! His strength had left him; and in a few moments the sound of drumming hoofs grew fainter and died away. (9.23) More…
http://www.shmoop.com/animal-farm/boxer-horse.html
Boxer’s Timeline >
•Boxer comes to hear about old Major’s dream.
•Boxer accepts all the principles of Animalism.
•He develops the "I will work harder" mantra.
•Boxer kills a boy in the Battle of the Cowshed and feels guilty about it.
•He is awarded "Animal Hero, First Class."
•He momentarily challenges Squealer, believing that Snowball was loyal all the time.
•He overpowers three of Napoleon’s dogs that attack him.
•Boxer fights against the notion that the Battle of the Windmill was a victory.
•Boxer collapses while trying to re-build the windmill again.
•He tries to break out of the van, but is unable to escape being sent to his death.
http://www.shmoop.com/animal-farm/boxer-horse-timeline.html
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