My goal is to describe Boxer’s removal from Animal Farm from his point of view (through the third person).
It was a dry and arid midsummer afternoon when they took Boxer away. The heat was suffocating, but in the shade there was a cool presence.
For the first time in his life, Boxer was vulnerable. He felt weak. His muscles had lost their firm build, and the act of standing made him collapse in a cold sweat. A throbbing ache took its place in his chest as he watched the days go by, alone and confined in his unkempt stall.
A noise arose in the distance, a noise sounding not unlike the sound of Boxer’s own hooves on solid ground. It wasn’t quite a menacing sound, but something about it was unsettling. The old horse mustered all his strength to peek out of the barn and see a black, horse-drawn van driving up on the yellowing lawn. Pulling the van were two horses. Each had the red mark of a whip on its back. Inscribed on the side were white letters, but Boxer could only recognize a few of them. The door opened quickly, and a human figure approached, crouching low with a harness in one hand. Boxer sensed danger, but knew he could not charge out of the stall like he could have a while ago. He surrendered to the demanding yank of the harness as he was pulled toward the van.
Before he knew it, he was in a space much too cramped. He gasped for breath
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They were joyful, so perhaps he was being taken to a place of paradise. But then the mood changed. He could hear Benjamin, his precious friend, but could not make out his words. And then it was Clover, crying out like a terrible misfortune had happened. A sudden urge made Boxer’s hind legs lash out violently. It was a feeling that brought him back to the years of his glory. But alas, his body could no longer take it. He let out one more feeble kick, and then slid into a slump on the side of the van, a threatening ring of silence in his eardrums. The van had taken