“Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen
This week I read pages 105-130. The passage starts with Jacob in current times in the nursing home. Jacob is woken up by a nurse. I’m kind of confused if the story of the circus is Jacob’s dream or if it is just a separate story since it seems to go along with the dream, but it is a true story. The nurse tells Jacob that his family is coming that day to take him to the circus. I predict that Jacob’s family will forget to visit him and take him to the circus because it would add to Jacob’s image as a very lonely and sad man. The passage then goes back in time to when Jacob was working for the circus. August is getting meaner and meaner. It turns out he fed Marlena’s horse’s remains other animals. Marlena is mad at August, but August doesn’t understand why. This shows how uncompassionate he is. Also, this confirms my prediction that that’s what August would do with the horse. August gets into a fight with another worker named Pete. Later, August says that he found food for the hungry cats. I think he killed Pete and fed him to the cats. This has been suggested before in the book and after the incident with the horse, I don’t put it past August. Jacob also gets in a fight with August where August gets very mad and yells at Jacob. I predict this is a precursor to a big fight between them. In the end of the passage, the circus gets a new elephant, but they are told the elephant is useless. I predict this will be the root of the problem between August and Jacob since they will both have to deal with it.
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