3. Explain how Boxer dies. What does it tell us about the leaders of Animal Farm? Compare them to how Mr. Jones ran his farm.

One afternoon, a van comes to take Boxer away. It has “lettering on its side and a sly-looking man in a low-crowned bowler hat sitting on the driver’s seat.” The hopeful animals wish Boxer goodbye, but Benjamin breaks their revelry by reading the lettering on the side of the van: “Alfred Simmons, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon. Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal. Kennels Supplied” (123). The animals panic and try to get Boxer to escape. He tries to get out of the van, but he has grown too weak to break the door. The animals try to appeal to the horses drawing the van, but they do not understand the situation. Boxer is sent to the glue factory, and Napoleon thus proves that all tyrannical rule is alike.... be it Jones or Napoleon.