Summary Of Water For Elephants By Sara Gruen

Beginning in present day, and then flashing back to the 1930’s, this book follows the life of Jacob Jankowski in the emotional saga capturing the romance and courage of this time. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen shows the readers what times used to be like and how they have changed today. As every page turned you can find every reader wanting just a little more. Jenny Krantzberg, my mother, and I read this book only to find that we were greatly effected by the scenes portrayed and the words spoken. As we began this book, the most crucial part of the story in which Jacob was set off was the death of his parents. He studied at Cornell University to be a veterinarian, and in the middle of his end of the year final he walks out. This sets the story up, because following this bold action he jumps on a train and is hired by the circus. Although my …show more content…
We enjoyed reading this book due to the romance aspect and also how well the chapters flowed together. But, we did not enjoy the violence which made it uneasy to read and the skipping from past to present. This book was right in the middle for us on a good to bad scale. The author, in our opinion, was trying to convey the message of courage to the reader. Jacob had much courage. He had to live with the death of his parents which caused him to have the courage to run from his final test and all his schooling and join the circus. He had courage to show his love to Marlena who was already in a relationship. He shoed the reader courage when he walked away from killing August, and the most import sign of courage was when he had the courage to tell this story as an old man and go back to the circus all by himself. We believe this book is for a mature reader who maybe is dealing with decision making and needs some encouragement. This book gives very good lessons, but we are unsure if we would want to read another book by this