Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

What a delicious read! Water for Elephants have got to be one of the best reads for anyone that likes animals, circuses, and a very wonderfully flowing story. Working in or for a circus, especially in past years, had to be one of the most arduous and tough occupations to tackle. Sara Gruen do the reader odor the circus smells, taste sensation the midway foods, and be in the ring with the animate beings as they entertain. I have got not been to a circus since I was a teenager, which is many old age ago. Water for Elephants took me back to those years reminding me of some of the things I saw and smelled.

His household placed Francois Jacob Jankowski in a place for old folks because none of them wanted to "have" to take attention of him. Sad, but true. Francois Jacob is not certain if he is ninety or ninety-three years of age. He only cognizes his age is somewhere around that range. Francois Jacob detests the other old people in the home, detests the food, and detests the nurses that dainty him like he makes not cognize what he is doing or saying. This is no life for Francois Francois Jacob Jankowski!

The narrative then travels back to when Jacob was in Katherine Cornell College studying to be a veterinarian. He was diffident about women; wanted nil to make with them socially. Francois Jacob thought he must be the human races oldest male virgin. Francois Jacob makes well with his schooling until one twenty-four hours he was called out of social class and told that both of his parents had been killed in an car accident. Jacob, of course, was crushed, mentally and physically. This couldn't be happening to him. His parents had been paying his manner through college so he figured he could go on his instruction with whatever his parents left him. His father was also a veterinary with a good practice. Francois Jacob was beside himself when he was told that all the place his parents owned was being taken because of no finances to pay for the bills. It turns out that his father bartered with his clients as they paid him in chickens, eggs, animals, or whatever they had, but not money.

This disquieted Francois Jacob so much that he just took off walking and walking until he came to a railing path that had a railroad train moving that he was going to leap on regardless of where it was going. Thus Francois Jacob began his circus life when he jumped that railroad train and met other circus performing artists and roustabouts. He had no thought what lie ahead. His inclusion into the circus life was difficult, as the circus makes not like immature yokels being around experienced circus people. When they establish out he was "almost" a veterinarian, they were elated, as they had no 1 to medically care for the animals. This gave Francois Jacob a ticket into circus life.

As I said originally, the writer do you experience as though you were in the circus company as they raised their tents, did their shows, ate the nutrient available, got paid when there was money, running away from the law when one or more than in the circus caused a job with the law or local authorities, traveled on the circus railroad train never knowing for certain where they would stop up, putting up with the circus proprietor and top direction that treated most of the aid like dirt.

Of course of study there was much in the book about personal lives of the circus employees and owners. Also how the circus obtained more than animate beings and equipment legally or otherwise. It is an oculus opener for anyone to read. It do one wonderment how these circus people existed in those years of traveling and life such as an unsure existence.

The narrative makes occasionally travel back to Francois Jacob in the place in which he is so unhappy. The circus come ups to town and sets up right next to the home, making Francois Jacob so excited to be so fold to the circus, even though it is not one of the 1s he worked when younger. The years passed so slowly as he waited for his household to come up and take him to his large visit to the large top.

I doubt anyone could read this book without coming away with a great apprehension of those old circus years and what they meant to the people that worked that difficult life. You will cognize that Sara Gruen set much clip and attempt in her research for Water for Elephants. You WILL bask this book. It will entertain you and educate you at the same time.