question on the book animal farm !?

Question

Okay .. i just got done reading the book.I didnt get two parts.How did Boxer die .. and what happen at the ending.I try to read it over and over .. still didn''t get it though.

Answer 1

These Cliff notes provide a plot summary.

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Animal-Farm.id-12,pageNum-5.html

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 2

(1) Boxer was sold by the pigs to a glue factory :
However, Benjamin and Clover could only be with Boxer after working hours,
and it was in the middle of the day when the van came to take him away.
The animals were all at work weeding turnips under the supervision of a
pig, when they were astonished to see Benjamin come galloping from the
direction of the farm buildings, braying at the top of his voice. It was
the first time that they had ever seen Benjamin excited--indeed, it was
the first time that anyone had ever seen him gallop. "Quick, quick!" he
shouted. "Come at once! They're taking Boxer away!" Without waiting for
orders from the pig, the animals broke off work and raced back to the farm
buildings. Sure enough, there in the yard was a large closed van, drawn by
two horses, with lettering on its side and a sly-looking man in a
low-crowned bowler hat sitting on the driver's seat. And Boxer's stall was
empty.

The animals crowded round the van. "Good-bye, Boxer!" they chorused,
"good-bye!"

"Fools! Fools!" shouted Benjamin, prancing round them and stamping the
earth with his small hoofs. "Fools! Do you not see what is written on the
side of that van?"

That gave the animals pause, and there was a hush. Muriel began to spell
out the words. But Benjamin pushed her aside and in the midst of a deadly
silence he read:

"'Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon. Dealer
in Hides and Bone-Meal. Kennels Supplied.' Do you not understand what that
means? They are taking Boxer to the knacker's!"

http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/8.html


And at the end of the book, the pigs become fully human. They completely disavow their original mantra:
"Four legs good, two legs, bad!"
and brainwash the sheep into saying "Four legs good, two legs better!"
They wear the farmer's old clothes, they get fat off of "paperwork" (which is thrown into the fire, showing its uselessness) instead of hard work. They ignore all the promises made to the animals. They cohort with people and show that there's no "revolution,"

In other words, the pigs become the people -- once in power, the communist becomes just as much of a dictator as any king. The animal's lives don't get any better, and no one remembers whether it's better or not (mostly because they're all stupid or have been brainwashed).

Answer 3

Boxer death was so sad when I read animal farm, I hated the book and felt awful. I am glad that you get it but it is a drag.