Essay on Water for Elephants

Ethan being very needy marries Zeena, and once she turns cold, Ethan suffers. Ethan had been very lonely, living with his sickly mother.

Unfortunately Evalina is married to Jim Bishop who doesn’t approve of Spunk taking his wife away from him. In Jim’s effort to get Evalina back, Spunk ends up accidentally killing Jim Bishop. Spunk now has to serve 90 days in prison. My favorite character was Zora, who was narrating the play inside of the play. Her narrative, first hand experience, and attitude made the whole story more interesting and relatable. My least favorite character in the story was Jim Bishop. He was an aggressive, angry, and self-centered man who treated his wife very poorly. He did not deserve to be married to a woman that he did not have respect for. The conflict is developed and resolved by the end of the play because Spunk pushes Jim’s scheming father, Old man Bishop, the roots man, onto the big saw at the Mill killing him. At the end of the play Spunk and Evalina end up happily

The circus is a wonderful and breathtaking experience and most people dream about going to a circus. The circus is full of exciting, fun activities, bright lights and the smell of crackerjack. Although the circus may seem like a fantastic idea, the circus during the Great Depression behind the closed curtains are not. During the Great Depression there was not much regulation which led to the mistreatment of the circus workers and the animals in the menagerie. Since it is during this time period, food and money were incredibly scarce. Workers were often times left unpaid and hungry, and sometimes even red lighted, which is the act of throwing someone off of a moving train which was done in order to save money in the circus. This is seen in the novel, Water for Elephants, and Sara Gruen highlights the imperfections of the circus. There also was not enough caretakers for the exotic animals in the menagerie and the animals were often times mistreated. Because of the Great Depression nothing was regulated or enforced so the money hungry circus owner operated business as he so desired. In Water for Elephants highlights the theme throughout the entire novel how deceiving the really is, but how the audience continues to perceive

Whenever Marlena is in danger, Jacob immediately tries to help her as much as he could, even if it means that he might get hurt in the process. When August turns ballistic and tries to hurt Marlena, Jacob intervenes without hesitation: “[August] ends up dragging [Marlena] by the neck as she screams. I launch across the open space and tackle him” (246). As soon as Jacob sees that Marlena is in danger, he tries to help her and rescue her from August. He knows that there are consequences, such as being redlighted or fired, especially because August is his employer. Even with all these known threats, Jacob attacks August anyways. Jacob is willing to defend Marlena from a dangerous August because of his incredible loyalty to her. His loyalty to her also makes him want to ensure Marlena’s safety, so he takes Marlena with him when he leaves the circus: “I can’t leave Marlena… here while I return to Ithaca to write my exams” (318). The only person keeping Jacob from immediately leaving the circus to go back to pursuing his dream of becoming a veterinarian was Marlena. He stays at the circus for a longer period of time to watch over her and eventually takes her back to his home. Jacob’s protectiveness to Marlena leads him to attack people who try to hurt her, and he also does not leave the circus immediately to retake his exams because of

Only this time by his love for Marlena, an intriguing young circus performer, who was married to the animal trainer whom Jacob’s close friend referred

When it comes to Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and Fall by Colin McAdam, there are obvious similarities between the main characters. In Water for Elephants, we have Jacob and August, two men who are both in love with a girl named Marlena. In Fall, there is Noel and Julius, two boys who are both in love with a girl named Fall. As for the setting however, there is nothing to compare as in Water for Elephants, it is set at a circus in the 1930’s, whereas Fall is a modern story set in Ottawa. In addition to this difference, we can only see Jacob’s perspective (although we get to see his perspective from two different ages which is similar to Fall), but in Fall, we get the perspective of Julius, in his present teens and Noel from the future as an adult.

In every literature work, there are always those unexpected twists, ideas, and/or conflicts that allow the reader to acknowledge and view the masterpiece with more appreciation. This is shown in the novel, Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen. The story takes place in the chaotic great depression in the 1930s. In the novel, we can clearly observe the delightful story that Sara Gruen had produce. The progress on how she had arranged the storyline made it exceptionally better. Many different events had occurred that helped the readers be more engaged in reading the written work. The characters’ growths along with the plot development which is written in a third person perspective allows a deeper understanding for the readers to appreciate the novel even further.

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married(maurice, valerie) ^ married(gettis, viola) ^ married(bud, celeta) ^ married(ernie, lila) ^ married(maria, ed) ^ married(tim,

Meanwhile, Bianca falls in love with one of her suitors, Lucentio, who disguised himself as a tutor in order to get to know Bianca, and they secretly marry. But, eventually, Lucentio confesses to Bianca that he is not a tutor, but the son of a well-respected man, and decides to ask for Baptista’s blessing to marry Bianca. Baptista agrees, and a big wedding is thrown. Petruchio and the now-tamed Katharina return for the wedding, where Katharina delivers a speech on the duty of women to their husbands. Personally, I do not

Mrs. Demetrius was the mother of Vladimir and widowed wife of Axel Homrighausen, who was eaten by the kraken along side Jack Sparrow and the Black Pearl. Axel left Mrs.Demetrius with only a quaint country home and a young tyke. This was all that the mastermind, Silverstein, needed to lead them into his house of lies.

The relationship between Cecilia and Mortimer Delvile is one of the most frustrating parts of the novel. Delvile is an indecisive, self-centered man who does not think about the effects that his actions might have on another person. He is not malicious, but he is inconsiderate and he introduces great pain into Cecilia’s life. He initially confesses to her that he loves her, then ignores her just long enough that she is able to move on from him, then comes back into her life under the pretense of friendship, and then he leaves again. His flippant disregard for her feelings takes a toll on Cecilia as she tries to pinpoint what kind of relationship they actually have. Delvile finally decides that he does indeed love her and want to be with her, so he travels to find her and suggests what he believes to be an excellent compromise for the both of them: a secret wedding.

Hans first met his wife Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein, better known as Margret Rey, when she was still a little girl in Hamburg, before she left to study art in Bauhaus. Just like Hans, Margret was Jewish and so after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, she moved to London and became a photographer. The two met again in Brazil in 1935, where Hans was a bathtub and sink salesman. They married on August 16, 1935 and lived together in an apartment along with two pet marmosets. They eventually moved to Paris in 1939.

The article I read was focused on the fact that the main character of the story is quite different from everybody else and that he isn’t really happy with the life his living. That is until he meets with Countess Olenska who he believes is “mysterious and scandalous”, she doesn’t follow the norm of New York which is quite the opposite of Archers beloved May who is lacking something that Archer feels he needs in his life.

These factors rise to a climax when the book’s namesake, Ivanhoe, is confronted with a decision to whom he should marry. Either, his childhood friend and life-long love Rowena; the beautiful, high spirited Saxon princess of the virtuous and love bereaved Jewess, Rebecca; who having nurtured Ivanhoe back to