Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of animal farm. to see him toiling up the slope inch by inch, his breath coming fast, the tips of his hoofs clawing at the ground, and his great sides matted with sweat, filled everyone with admiration. clover warned him sometimes to be careful not to overstrain himself, but boxer would never listen to her. what inference can be made about clover’s motivation to tell boxer to stop working so hard? clover may have experienced a bad fall in the past, which causes her to fear the slope. clover wants to see more animals on the farm doing their equal share of the work. clover has always been jealous of boxer and wants him to work less so he will get in trouble. clover thinks that if boxer continues working so hard he will wear himself out and be harmed.

The correct answer is:

"Clover thinks that if Boxer continues working so hard he will wear himself out and be harmed".

The description that the author gives in this text is that Boxer is putting so much effort, you can notice it by the description they give to boxer; inch by inch, this means that Boxer is moving very slowly. The tips of his hoofs clawing at the ground, this means that Boxer is being nervous while walking the slope. And finally Boxer is matted with sweat and everyone is admired by his tremendous effort. So, Clover is worried about Boxer wearing himself out.

D) Clover thinks that if Boxer continues working so hard he will wear himself out and be harmed.

Explanation:

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.