Character Analysis Of Jacob Jankowski In 'Water For Elephants'

In the novel Water for Elephants, the main character, Jacob Jankowski, narrates when he is a kind young man seeking a new life and fresh start after his parents die and he's left with nothing to his name and when he's an old man living in a retirement home, feeling nostalgic about the life he had on the circus. He has very strong values when it comes to himself or other's situations and acts in sacrifice and honor. Jacob is the type of character that has little change of himself, but has his life changing around him along with causing other character to change themselves as well. Jacob shows to be a very passionate person even at the beginning of the story in his young and older narration. This passionate side of him comes out both in a righteous