What were Boxer's last words?

' Squealer cynically uses Boxer's motto when he tells the animals that Boxer's 'very last words' were 'Napoleon is always right'. Napoleon too uses these maxims for his own ends in his oration in Boxer's honour, telling every animal that each 'would do well to adopt [these maxims] as his own'.
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What were boxers actual last words?

Boxer's death is turned into a day of honouring him. Squealer says that his sayings, "Comrade Napoleon is always right" and "I will work harder!" should live on in all the animals; ergo another excuse to make the animals work even harder.
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What does Squealer claim are Boxer's last words?

Chapter 9: What does Squealer claim are Boxer's last words? "Napoleon is always right."
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How did Boxer die Animal Farm?

Animal Farm is eventually proclaimed a Republic, and Napoleon is elected President. 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.
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What is Boxer's last ambition?

What is Boxer's ambition after the windmill battle? Retirement ages for the animals and the pigs.
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What was Boxer's fate?

Analysis: Chapter IX

Orwell uses Boxer's death as a searing indictment of such totalitarian rule, and his death points sadly and bitterly to the downfall of Animal Farm.
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What happened in the last chapter of Animal Farm?

At the end of Animal Farm, Pilkington and other human farmers come to eat dinner with the pigs at the farmhouse. As the other animals watch through the window, they find they are unable to tell pigs and humans apart. The pigs have started to dress and behave exactly like humans.
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What did Boxer's death represent?

What does Boxer's death represent? Boxer's death represents the exploitation of the working classes as well as the death of the idealism that led to the establishment of Animal Farm. Before his death, Boxer is Napoleon's most loyal supporter, abusing his body in service to the farm and the windmill.
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How did the pigs use Boxer's body?

How did the pigs use Boxer's death to get the animals to work harder? Boxer extolled the gloreis of Animal Farm, and worked very hard to create the windmill. The pigs use him as a model of a hard, loyal worker to get some to work ahrder; the others work harder out of fear of the glue factory.
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Where does Boxer end up going?

Where does a Boxer end up going? How do the animals figure this out? The slaughter house and when the other animals saw him going to the van it said on the side, "horse slaughter."
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Who dies in Animal Farm?

Summary and Analysis Chapter 10

Years pass, and Animal Farm undergoes its final changes. Muriel, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher are all dead, and Jones dies in an inebriates' home.
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How does Squealer claim Boxer spent his last hours?

How does Squealer claim Boxer spent his last hours? a. He died repeating his maxims and hailing Napoleon.
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What is written on the side of the van that takes Boxer away?

Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked "Horse Slaughterer," and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knacker's. It was almost unbelievable, said Squealer, that any animal could be so stupid.
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Has a Boxer ever died in the ring?

It's estimated that between 1890 and 2011, 1,604 boxers lost their lives as a direct result of injuries sustained in the ring, with that working out at an average of 13 per year. From the same study, it showed 233 boxing-related deaths in the 1920s, during less safe times, while 103 occurred in the 2000s.
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Where is Davey Moore now?

Davey Moore, a former World Boxing Association junior-middleweight champion, was killed Friday when an unoccupied vehicle rolled down his driveway and ran over him as he tried to stop it, his trainer and the police said today. He was 28 years old.
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How old is Boxer in Animal Farm?

How old was Boxer? 12 years of age.
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What might Napoleon want Boxer gone?

Boxer is a horse, so he could take Napoleon out. Boxer represents the hard-working, lower class in the Russian Revolution. Napoleon could be threatened by him because either, since he's so strong he could take him down or because he is so liked everyone would follow Boxer.
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What phrase did Boxer add to his private motto I will work harder?

Whenever something goes wrong, he blames himself and vows to work even harder. His favourite sayings are 'Napoleon is always right' and 'I will work harder'.
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Who is the most noble character in Animal Farm?

Who was the most noble character in Animal Farm? Explain your choice. Boxer. Throughout the book, he has doubts about Napoleon but stays loyal to him through it all.
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What quote best foreshadows Boxer's demise?

what quote best foreshadows boxer's demise? "fools!
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Why did Napoleon ban the singing of Beasts of England?

Napoleon basically says that there is no longer a need for the song as the rebellion is over. Really though, Napoleon no longer favours the words to the song. The song speaks to animal freedom and equality, Napoleon wants none of that. Napoleon wants absolute power.
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What is the last line of Animal Farm?

My favorite last line is from Animal Farm by George Orwell. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
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Is there a good ending to Animal Farm?

By the end of Animal Farm, pigs are walking on two legs, Seven Commandments have become one, and the pigs insist to the other humans that all they wanted all along was to "to live at peace and in normal business relations" (10.27). R.I.P., rebellion.
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Why is the ending of Animal Farm particularly ironic?

Why is the ending of Animal Farm particularly ironic? At the beginning of the novel the animals wanted to get rid of the humans but in the end of the novel the pigs turned into the humans. This shows how the humans never truly left the farm.
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