Christina,+Rachel

**Ch.9**
Although Boxer is not as strong as before, and has a split hoof, he works hard, looking forward to retirement. All the animals except the pigs and the dogs start to receive even less food. Animal Farm becomes a republic in April, with Napoleon as the president. When Boxer collapses while working, the pigs reassure the other animals they will take him to the vet for treatment. However, the cart that takes Boxer says "Horse Slaughterer" on the back. Later, Squealer tells the animals that the vets tried hard to cure Boxer, but couldn't. He also explains that the cart previously had belonged to a horse slaugterer, that the vet forgot to paint over it.
 * 1. summary**


 * 2. allegorical connection**

Boxer's life and death: It shows how the authorities treated the working class and how they exploited them in Russia.

Selling Boxer for profit showed cruelties of Communism.


 * 3. symbolism**

Boxer: People in Russia who weren't educated and couldn't think for themselves. pg.114: "Boxer refused to take even a day off work, and made it a point of honour not to let it be seen that he was in pain."

Food rations decreased (pg. 115): It symbolizes the quality of lives of average citizens worsening in Russia.

Pigs getting special treatment (pg. 116): It symbolizes class distinction.


 * 4. satire**

Irony pg. 117: "Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneus Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm." It seems ironic that it's called a "Spontaneus Demonstration," as if the animals will suddenly burst out singing about the glory of the Animal Farm, when the actual process is organized in military formation.

Irony pg. 123: ""Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon. Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal. Kennels Supplied." Do you ont understand what that means? They are taking Boxer to the knacker's!" It is that Boxer is betrayed by animals he gave loyalty to.

I don't see any special changes in the pigs, except for the fact that they're becoming more and more human and making it obvious that they're higher than the other animals. They're becoming more corrupt. Even the newly born piglets--as shown on pg. 116--are going to get special treatment from now on.
 * 5. character change**


 * ---Rachel S. <3

6. twisting of logic and history to serve political ends (What examples do you see?)**

__Twisting of history__: “...fresh documents had been discovered which revealed further details about Snowball’s complicity with Jones...The wounds on Snowball’s back, which a few of the animals still remembered to have seen, had been inflicted by Napoleon’s teeth.” (118-119) -The pigs have distorted the history of the Battle of Cowshed. In the actual battle, Snowball did not fight for the humans in the Battle of Cowshed, but rather fought bravely for the animals.


 * 7. use of propaganda/doublespeak (look for slogans, songs, etc.); EXPLAIN the significance; use the handout

-**__Statistics without context & Arrant distortion:__ “...but in comparison with the day of Jones, the improvement was enormous. Reading out the figures in a shrill, rapid voice, he proved to them in detail that they had more oats, more hay, more turnips than they had had in Jones’s day, that the worked shorter hours, that their drinking water was of better quality, that they lived longer, that a larger proportion of their young ones survived infancy, and that they had more straw in their stalls and suffered less from fleas.” (115) -This is clear propaganda. Squealer does not provide the background of the statistics, and it is probably made up data.

-__Slogan__: “Long live Comrade Napoleon!”(118) -This is a slogan that is on the banner of Animal Farm, which is carried around once a week in the Spontaneous Demonstration.


 * 8. abuse of power (How do some abuse power at the expense of others?)**

-For the young pigs, other animals had to build a schoolroom. Also, “when a pig and any other animal met on the path, the other animal must stand aside.” (116) -It was announced that barley would be reserved for the pigs only. (117) -Even at the time of shortage, the pigs bought a case of whiskey for themselves. (126)


 * 9. questions: develop a minimum of five (total) interpretive and evaluative questions based on the section (see below for question writing help)**

-What do you think Moses, the raven, represents in the Animal Farm? Relate it to actual history of the Stalin Era. -Why is Moses allowed to stay in the farm? -Why did animals so easily believe that things were better than they were in the past? -Why was the Spontaneous Demonstration significant? -Why did the pigs lie about Boxer’s treatment?

**-Christina S.<3---**