Boxer's Loss Of Innocence In Animal Farm

Why Boxer is Engaging Engaging is defined as “tending to draw favorable attention or interest,” (“Engaging”). In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, a farm that the animals have taken over. The book is an allegory to the Russian Revolution, and Boxer’s character of a working horse, representing the working class. There are many important characters in the book, but Boxer is by far the most important and engaging because he is naive, selfless, and outshone the work ethic of others. To be engaging one has to stand out among the rest, and Boxer stands out because he is always so naive. Being naive is when someone has lack of intelligence or experience and Boxer fits into both of those categories. Boxer not knowing or realising what Napoleon and the pigs were doing made him naive. In result of Boxer being naive, he has more innocence than some of the other characters in the book because of his lack of knowledge. Boxer is innocent in the book because he had know idea of what the pigs were doing, so he had no reason to stop them. An example of Boxer being naive was when the pigs sent him to the glue factory, on the side of the cart he couldn't read what it said, from Boxer only knowing four letters of the alphabet. If he knew

Boxer always cares about the other characters and never takes anything for himself. At the beginning of the book, when Old Mayor called the first meeting, Boxer was very cautious of the smaller animals, and made sure that they were comfortable before he even sat down to hear what Old Mayor had to say. At the meeting Boxer cared more about the other animals comfort before his own. When times were tough on the farm and food was scarce, Boxer gave up portions of his food to other animals so they would get to eat food. Boxer never complained about the food shortages and he just helped the other animals as much as he