In the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, and the novel Legend, by Marie Lu, both books show, through character developments, how living in an oppressive type of environment, under a corrupt government style forms the characters’ similar traits/personalities and similar beliefs. In both books the citizens are under a government style where their leaders are power hungry and have it better than everyone else does. Both leaders are the wealthiest and eat and sleep in luxury compared to the people living under their power with no money and food. In both novels the characters have a chance at being killed at any time by the government that they are living under. In this essay this idea will be proven using Boxer, from Animal Farm and Day from …show more content…
He is very careful and continued to show sympathy towards others no matter how bad things got for himself. His concern and precision is showed almost right away when the author describes the scene for Old Major’s speech: “The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw” (2). This showed from the beginning that Boxer tried to be as considerate and sympathetic towards others as he could be. Boxer could have walked in with a different attitude and be not careful at all; instead, he and Clover both made sure they were careful and slow with their steps. Boxer also shows his sympathetic characteristic as well when the animals fought in “The Battle of the Cowshed.” In this fight Boxer fought one of the humans, standing up for the animals, and ended up hurting the man when those were not his intentions: “But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion. His very first blow took a stable-lad from Foxwood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud. At the sight, several men dropped their sticks and tried to run. Panic overtook them, and the next moment all the animals together were chasing them round and round the yard,” (27). Boxer continued to feel sorrow and sympathy towards the man he had hurt: “Boxer was pawing with his hoof at the stable-lad who lay face down in the mud, trying to turn him over. The boy did not stir. ‘He is dead,’ said Boxer sorrowfully. ‘I had no intention of doing that. I forgot that I was wearing iron shoes. Who will believe that I did not do this on purpose?’”(27-28). Boxer feels awful about thinking he killed someone and he again continued on to say, “‘I have no