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So far in Animal Farm there have been some happy times.... and some not so happy times. But beside the part in the book where Napoleon slaughters animals even of his own kind in front of the entire farm, there was another section in chapter nine that particularly disturbed me. Boxer had been injured from working so hard hence his motto, "I will work harder" and is sent to the barn to heal. So he is visited by Clover and spends most of his days there rehabilitating so he can get back to work on the windmill and working on the farm. But when unsupervised, a few animals catch a van driving up to the very barn Boxer is living in. They see him being loaded into a van with the label, "Alfred Simmons, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon. Dealer in hides and Bone-Meal. Kennels Supplied". When the car is driving off, they cry out for Boxer hoping he will realize his fate and try to break free. By the time he thinks of this, the car has already driven out of the farm and is heading for the factory.

But Squealer on the other hand believes that this was compliments of Napoleon and that Boxer was arranged to go to a hospital to get better. Once everyone is convinced on the farm, they get news that Boxer has died and are very upset. They believe that he lived a happy life and at least he died a happy horse. I don't think this was the case, though. From that title on the car, that made me upset because he seems like if he was a human, he'd been a really nice person. I think that it is obvious he was not going to a hospital, and I thought it was terrible when Napoleon agreed to the animals believing he sent Boxer away to a hospital. He obviously didn't do anything to help, but wanted credit... and that made me upset.