“Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen
This week I began reading “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen. I read from pages one through thirteen. In the passage, the main character Jacob is introduced. He is an old man who lives in a nursing home. He seems very grumpy. For example, he does not like it when a new man at the nursing home tries to sit with him at lunch. The man tries to make conversation. The man sees that the circus is coming to town and setting up next to the nursing home. He says that he used to work for the circus carrying water for the elephants. Jacob calls him a liar and says that he couldn’t have carried water for the elephants because elephants drink too much water to carry. Also, Jacob is unhappy with the nursing home. He always longs for better food. I think that Jacob will be a very interesting character because he is full of grumpy attitude. The book begins with a flashback. It is a flashback of Jacob working for the circus when he was younger. The flashback is of a time when all the animals escaped from the circus. There were panthers and yaks running freely everywhere. The flashback does not state specifically what Jacob’s job was in the circus. I predict that his job will have to do with animals because the title has an animal, an elephant, in it and also because the flashback he had concerned animals. In addition, Jacob seemed to have some knowledge of circus animals when he fought with the man in the nursing home.
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I think this book sounds very interseting. I also wonder how Jacob is connected to the circus. Perhaps he also brought water to the elephants since he knows so much about it. I once went to a circus and rode on the back of an elephant. It was very scary. You had to climb a ladder one story high to get onto the animal's back. I sat in this saddle type thing with sides on it so I wouldn't fall out. That animal was huge! I would have to agree with Jacob that there is no way you could carry the amount of water an elephant needs.
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