2. 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)
3. 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
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
