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Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen has the elderly Jacob tell the story to emphasize that it is one person's experience as seen through his eyes and at a distance of many decades. The reader learns that Jacob and Marlena,...
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Water for Elephants
In chapter 8 of Water for Elephants, we are back in the present with an older Jacob. His life in the nursing home isn’t anywhere near as exciting or fulfilling as the past, when he was young. He...
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Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen explores how the Great Depression not only affected American citizens, but also the economy in Water for Elephants. In chapter 2, Jacob Jankowski's plans for the future come to a tragic...
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Water for Elephants
This incident comes at the end of Chapter 2, when Jacob, aimless and distraught over his parents' death and the loss of their house, decides on a whim to jump on a train and see where it takes him....
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Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen depicts a number of themes discussed below: 1. Love: In the story, love is shown among the characters themselves. But what's more, love also exists between humans...
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Water for Elephants
"Red-lighted" means that if a circus worker falls ill or lame he can be hurled from the train in the middle of the night and left for dead. This is one of the ways that Uncle Al intimidates his...
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Water for Elephants
In Water for Elephants, the characters Marlena and Jacob are drawn together. Marlena is married to August, but it is a bad marriage. She met him and married him quickly. By the time she realized...
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Water for Elephants
There are several conflicts in Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants. The first major conflict for the character Jacob catapults him into a new life and thus creates the rest of the story. Jacob must...
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Water for Elephants
In Water for Elephants, the character Jacob becomes the veterinarian in the circus. He uses his training to help and care for the animals. When Uncle Al hears of another circus that has collapsed,...
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Water for Elephants
You might like to consider the following adjectives as suitable traits for Jacob Jankowski. Do remember, however, that characters can change during the course of the book, and the Jacob Jankowski...
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Water for Elephants
In Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, the character Marlena has grown very fond of Jacob by Chapter 17. As he visits in her dressing tent while August is absent, Marlena tells Jacob that she met...
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Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants is a story about an elderly man, Jacob, who recalls an adventure in his younger years. He worked as a veterinarian with a circus. During his time there, he fell in love with the...
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Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants contains several very brutal acts of violence. The story of an idealistic but emotionally-closed vet who joins a circus is far more realistic than many similar tales. The story,...
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Water for Elephants
Though Water for Elephants made it to the New York Times Bestseller List, it appears to have by virtue of creative storyline since there are weaknesses in Gruen's authorial style techniques. One...
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Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants is a narrative of intriguing contradictions in a compelling plot about circus life that is both glamorous and repulsive. The main conflict is that of the employees with their...
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Water for Elephants
August dies after Rosie (the elephant) pulls up her stake and slams it into the back of his head. The violent action splits August's head, and he falls to the ground. After bringing the stake down...
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Water for Elephants
Originally written as part of the month-long NaNoWriMo challenge, Water for Elephants became Sara Gruen's bestselling novel and the basis for the 2011 film of the same name. In writing the novel,...
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Water for Elephants
The answer to your question depends on what part of the story you're asking about. Water for Elephants is a novel, not a short story. It is the nature of short stories that their action builds to a...
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Water for Elephants
I would argue that one of the most significant happenings that occurs on the crowded train that has direct impact on Jacob, and indeed the whole plot of this great story, is the sickness of Camel...
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Water for Elephants
Jacob actually does feel guilty when Walter and Camel are redlighted because he knows that he was the intended victim. Jacob left the ring stock car to kill August, but he only ended up leaving a...
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Water for Elephants
Rosie the elephant is so central to the novel that she is as much a character as the humans are. She has especially strong effects on Jacob and August. Jacob, who treats Rosie and the other...
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Water for Elephants
Marlena met August at a circus show. Marlena was just a teenager when her parents took her to see a circus show. She was intrigued by the glamour of the circus shows and the animals. Marlena did...
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Water for Elephants
The answer to this is purely a matter of opinion on your part. It helps to look at the facts surrounding the situation, and your own personal feelings in regards to the moral implications involved...
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Water for Elephants
In general, a character analysis reviews the personality and motivations of each character. In this particular story, it might be important to point out some of Jacob's motivating factors. He...
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Water for Elephants
In the novel, Sara Gruen contrasts the cruelties of circus life with instances of caring through the relationships that the characters have with the animals and with other members of the circus....
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Water for Elephants
When the animals are let loose and a stampede breaks out in the menagerie of the Benzini Brothers circus, workers, performers, and animals run in all directions. Jacob sees Leo and one of the...
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Water for Elephants
I suppose the answer to this question depends on one's moral values and the time period. In the context of the novel, it does not appear that the circus workers feel exploited because they are...
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Water for Elephants
In Water for Elephants, Jacob experiences "bright sides" (optimistic moments) and "dark sides" (negative moments). Arguably the brightest moment of Jacob's experiences in the novel is when he...
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Water for Elephants
In the novel Water for Elephants, several fictional things are visible. For example, the characters and their conversations are fictional as no one was there to hear them. The story is told by a...
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Water for Elephants
Set in the desperate times of the Great Depression, the narrative of Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen attains even more poignancy with the tragedy in Jacobs's life which precipitates his jumping...
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Water for Elephants
Marlena is an interesting character because of the difference between how she behaves in her trap of a marriage to her controlling husband, and in contrast, to how independent and strong she is...
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Water for Elephants
The answer can be found in Chapter 22. This is of course when the rising action of the plot is mounting to its climax. Not only is the main plot of the Jacob/Marlena love interest hotting up, but...
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Water for Elephants
With the setting of the Great Depression, Gruen writes a narrative that portrays the desperate lives of circus performers and workers who try to survive as best they can. Because of the economic...
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Water for Elephants
This is rather a broad question. One way of answering it would be to say that it is important, as part of understanding a character as fully as we can, to think about and consider the history of...
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Water for Elephants
I would actually disagree with the inference of this question. I don't think that Jacob is tormented by anything wrong that he has done in the past or some misdemeanour that haunts him with guilt....