The Greatest Illusion – The Biggest Disaster Jacob Jankowski was just a young boy who was about to emark on the world as a Cornell graduate of verternary medicine. Unaware what the future would hold as he learns about the death of his parents, and life during the great depresion
The Great Depresion
Twelve million people out of work; twelve thousand people being made unemployed every day; twenty thousand companies gone bankrupt; one thousand sixteen banks – bankrupt; one in twenty farmers, evicted; twenty three thousand people committed suicide in a single year ("Wall Street Crash of 1929 and its aftermath". HistoryLearningSite.co.uk. 2014. Web). Massive, great and powerful, what could have happened that lead to the events of “Black …show more content…
We read about the life that Jacob lived and his love for Marlena, as he sits in the nursing home, and the patrons are watching the circus set up across the street, when Jacob begins to recal his memories.
Jacob Jankowski finds him self dealing with the loss of his parents, in his finals about to finish at vet school. There was no money and no practice to go back to. Worse yet his family home is now owed to the bank. When Jacob goes back to the University of Cornell and is not able concentrate and walks out of his exams. With no place to go Jacob ends up walking along the tracks and jumps a train car, not knowing what the train really is, that he has just hopped about the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. where his is met by Blackie a roustabout who would like nothing more than to red light Jacob.
Befriended by Camel, he gets Jacob a job on the show. Over the next little bit he falls As we continue to read we learn about the life during the depression, his romance with Marlena, and we read about how circuses collapse, and the greed that takes
The Great Depresion
Twelve million people out of work; twelve thousand people being made unemployed every day; twenty thousand companies gone bankrupt; one thousand sixteen banks – bankrupt; one in twenty farmers, evicted; twenty three thousand people committed suicide in a single year ("Wall Street Crash of 1929 and its aftermath". HistoryLearningSite.co.uk. 2014. Web). Massive, great and powerful, what could have happened that lead to the events of “Black …show more content…
We read about the life that Jacob lived and his love for Marlena, as he sits in the nursing home, and the patrons are watching the circus set up across the street, when Jacob begins to recal his memories.
Jacob Jankowski finds him self dealing with the loss of his parents, in his finals about to finish at vet school. There was no money and no practice to go back to. Worse yet his family home is now owed to the bank. When Jacob goes back to the University of Cornell and is not able concentrate and walks out of his exams. With no place to go Jacob ends up walking along the tracks and jumps a train car, not knowing what the train really is, that he has just hopped about the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. where his is met by Blackie a roustabout who would like nothing more than to red light Jacob.
Befriended by Camel, he gets Jacob a job on the show. Over the next little bit he falls As we continue to read we learn about the life during the depression, his romance with Marlena, and we read about how circuses collapse, and the greed that takes