![]() ![]() He is so grief-stricken that he has a breakdown in the exam hall and walks out without writing his exams.Īfter hours of wandering about, Jacob sees a moving train and hops on it. Jacob is days away from his graduation from veterinary school when his parents die in an accident. ![]() ![]() From there begins a series of flashbacks by Jacob to when he was twenty-three. Jacob is infuriated by this claim and has an altercation with the man, the ladies around think that Jacob is overreacting and begin to fawn over Joseph. ![]() Joseph, one of the men in the home, claims he once worked with a circus and that he used to carry water for the elephants. Jacob is not sure of his exact age but knows he is either ninety or ninety-three years old.Įveryone in the nursing home (who are not senile or too frail anyway) is excited about the circus. There is preparation for a circus across the street from the nursing home where Jacob lives. Water for Elephants ”Spoiler-Free” Summary He remembers his personal challenges in those days amidst the complexities of relationships between humans and animals in the circus. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen is a novel about an old man in the early 21st Century whose memory of his youth in the 1930s as a veterinarian in a circus is triggered when a circus mounts close to the nursing home where he lives. ![]()
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