Sunday 17 March 2013

Where did the pigs get the money to buy whiskey in the end of Animal Farm?

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sold to a Horse Slaughterer. This is the last we see of Boxer, but we can assume that the Horse
Slaughterer would have killed Boxer and then rendered his body into a variety of sellable
products including glue, soap, tallow, and animal feed. It's likely that the pigs would have
taken a payment from the Horse Slaughterer for Boxer, and that the Horse Slaughterer would have
then made a profit by selling the aforementioned products.

At this point in
the story, it makes good economic sense for the pigs to sell Boxer. He is injured because he has
been working so hard, to complete the windmill, and because he is injured he is of no further
use to the pigs. Ironically, this is more or less the same fate thatpredicted for Boxer at the
beginning of the story. Old Major told Boxer that, "Jones will sell you to the knacker, who
will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds." The only significant detail that
Old Major got wrong was that it would be Jones, rather than the pigs, who would sell Boxer to
the knacker.

At the end of Chapter 9,writes that "from somewhere or
other the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whiskey." The
phrase, "from somewhere or other," is an example of the dramaticthat characterizes
much of the story's narration. The reader will likely understand where the money has come from,
especially given that Boxer has just been taken away in a van marked "Horse
Slaughterer." The animals, however, are unable to make the connection, and it is their
perspective that we are exposed to when Orwell writes "from somewhere or
other."

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