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Chapter 9 (Summary)
 Start to rebuild the Windmill
 Boxer grows weak
 Food Shortage Evident (but not for Pigs and Dogs)
• They say it‟s still better than Mr. Jones‟s era
 Napoleon has 31 piglets w/ 4 sows-builds a schoolhouse
 Spontaneous demonstrations promoting animal farm
 Animal farm declared a Republic- Napoleon named Pres.
 Snowball has rumored to say “Long live humanity”
during the battle of cowshed
 Sugar Candy Mountain stories started again by Moses
 Boxer fails and collapses
• Arranged for ambulance (Glue Factory)
• Boxer announced as incurable and had died (False
info)

Chapter 9 (Analysis)
Blatant downfall of Animal Farm/Russia
Boxer’s death is ironic
 He worked for the good of all, but is sold for the good of a few
 Boxer is sold for alcohol
 His death breaks a lot of commandments
Death in a Glue Factory increases the dramatic power of
Orwell’s words
Russian administration exhausted its worker resources
and then discarded them
Return of Moses means shift of focus of working class
 Stalin brought back the Russian Orthodox Church after WWII
Spontaneous Demonstrations= Ironic b/c they weren’t
spontaneous, they were all planned out for propaganda

Chapter 9 Summary
 After celebrating their so-called victory against
Frederick, the animals begin building a new
windmill. Their efforts are again led by Boxer
who, despite his split hoof, insists on working
harder and getting the windmill started before
he retires.

Chapter 9 Summary
 Food supplies continue to diminish, but
Squealer explains that they actually have more
food and better lives than they have ever
known. The four sows litter 31 piglets;
Napoleon, the father of all of them, orders a
schoolroom to be built for their education.
 Meanwhile, more and more of the animals'
rations are reduced while the pigs continue to
grow fatter. Animal Farm is eventually
proclaimed a Republic, and Napoleon is elected
President.

Chapter 9 Summary
 Once his hoof heals, Boxer works as hard as he
can at building the windmill — until the day he
collapses because of a lung ailment.
 After he is helped back to his stall, Squealer
informs them that Napoleon has sent for the
veterinarian at Willingdon to treat him.
 When the van arrives to take Boxer to the
hospital, however, Benjamin reads its side and
learns that Boxer is actually being taken to a
knacker, or glue-boiler.

Chapter 9 Summary
 Clover screams to Boxer to escape, but the old
horse is too weak to kick his way out of the van,
which drives away. Boxer is never seen again.
 To placate the animals, Squealer tells them that
Boxer was not taken to a knacker but that the
veterinarian had bought the knacker's truck and had
not yet repainted the words on its side.
 The animals are relieved when they hear this.
 The chapter ends with a grocer's van delivering a
crate of whisky to the pigs, who drink it all and do
not arise until after noon the following day.

Irony
 The animals have no memory of the way
things were when Jones was around
 “in those days they had been slaves and now
they are free, and that made all the difference,
as Squealor did not fail to point out.” page 113

Emerging Themes
 “For the time being, certainly, it had been
found necessary to make a readjustment
of rations (Squealer always spoke of it
as a „readjustment,‟ never as a
„reduction’), but in comparison with the
days of Jones, the improvement was
enormous” (112).
 The abuse of language is instrumental
to the abuse of power

 Exploitation and the Need for Human Rights
 Boxer’s death and his fate prove the ultimate
betrayal of those in power against their most
loyal followers

Moses Returns
 Having been gone for several years he returns
and is allowed to stay
 Gives the weary animals hope
 Sugarcandy Mountain awaits them after death

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