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Amazon.com ReviewJacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn't always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty-one. It wasn't a romantic, carefree decision, to be sure. His parents were killed in an auto accident one week before he was to sit for his veterinary medicine exams at Cornell. He buried his parents, learned that they left him nothing because they had mortgaged everything to pay his tuition, returned to school, went to the exams, and didn't write a single word. He walked out without completing the test and wound up on a circus train. The circus he joins, in Depression-era America, is second-rate at best. With Ringling Brothers as the standard, Benzini Brothers is far down the scale and pale by comparison. Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob's life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has veterinary skills, is put in charge of the "menagerie" and all its ills. Uncle Al, the circus impresario, is a self-serving, venal creep who slaps people around because he can. August, the animal trainer, is a certified paranoid schizophrenic whose occasional flights into madness and brutality often have Jacob as their object. Jacob is the only person in the book who has a handle on a moral compass and as his reward he spends most of the novel beaten, broken, concussed, bleeding, swollen and hungover. He is the self-appointed Protector of the Downtrodden, and... he falls in love with Marlena, crazy August's wife. Not his best idea. The most interesting aspect of the book is all the circus lore that Gruen has so carefully researched. She has all the right vocabulary: grifters, roustabouts, workers, cooch tent, rubes, First of May, what the band plays when there's trouble, Jamaican ginger paralysis, life on a circus train, set-up and take-down, being run out of town by the "revenooers" or the cops, and losing all your hooch. There is one glorious passage about Marlena and Rosie, the bull elephant, that truly evokes the magic a circus can create. It is easy to see Marlena's and Rosie's pink sequins under the Big Top and to imagine their perfect choreography as they perform unbelievable stunts. The crowd loves it--and so will the reader. The ending is absolutely ludicrous and really quite lovely. --Valerie Ryan August in Water for Elephants - Shmoop August in Water for Elephants book analysis of August Watch Full movie Water for Elephants (2011) Online Free ... Watch Full movie Water for Elephants (2011) Online Free.A veterinary student abandons his studies after his parents are killed and joins a traveling circus as Water for Elephants author desperate to sell 156 ... Water for Elephants author Sara Gruen desperately trying to sell 156 Hatchimals after spending $23K on resale plot Water for Elephants (film) - Wikipedia Water for Elephants is a 2011 American romantic drama film directed by Francis Lawrence. Richard LaGravenese wrote the screenplay which was based on Sara Gruen's ... Water for Elephants (2011) - IMDb GET INFORMED. Industry information at your fingertips. GET CONNECTED. Over 200000 Hollywood insiders. GET DISCOVERED. Enhance your IMDb Page. Go to IMDbPro Ravelry: Water for the elephants pattern by Yvette Noel I loved the novel Water For the Elephants so much. I wanted to do some socks with an elephant on them. When I needed a gift for my Yoga instructor who had just come ... : Water for Elephants: Robert Pattinson Reese ... Buy Water for Elephants on FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders Discussion Questions: Water for Elephants - LitLovers Discussion Questions 1. To what extent do the chapters concerning the elderly Jacob enhance the chapters recounting the young Jacobs experiences with the Benzini ... Water for Elephants: A Novel: Sara Gruen: 9781565125605 ... Buy Water for Elephants: A Novel on FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders Water for Elephants Theme of Love - Shmoop Love theme in Water for Elephants book analysis of theme of Love
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