Chapters 9 and 10 — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Chapters 9 and 10
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Boxer's collapse and his sale to the knacker, the Republic, Moses's return, the years that pass, the pigs on two legs,
the single Commandment and the card game with the farmers.
Key quotations: 'something called a Spontaneous Demonstration', 'There was only one candidate, Napoleon, who was elected unanimously.', 'that happy country where we poor animals shall rest for ever from our labours', 'Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?', 'Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon', 'Boxer was never seen again.', 'the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whisky', 'Snowball was forgotten. Boxer was forgotten, except by the few who had known him.', 'It was a pig walking on his hind legs.', 'He carried a whip in his trotter.', 'Four legs good, two legs better!', 'To the prosperity of The Manor Farm!', 'from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again', 'but already it was impossible to say which was which'.
Structure: the circular ending, the single Commandment left on the wall, and the farm's old name restored.
Context: the Tehran Conference of 1943 between the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States, and the quarrel over the cards as Orwell's warning that their friendship would not last.
OCR's question on this text has two parts on the same text. Part (a), 20 marks, compares a printed extract from it with an unseen extract of the same genre, and weights your response (AO1) and context (AO3) twice as heavily as language analysis (AO2), where context means the social and cultural situations you can infer from the two extracts and their introductions; an answer on only one of the two extracts cannot go above Level 3. Part (b), 20 marks, explores another moment in the same text from memory, with response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2) equally weighted and no marks for context. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the part it is for.
