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In the novel Water for Elephants, Rosie is an elephant that outsmarts everyone by pretending to be incompetent. Rosie spent weeks on the circus not doing anything because the circus staff thought that she was incompetent. In the beginning weeks when Rosie was on the circus even though almost everyone believed that she was a waste of money because she was useless and stupid she often proved to outsmart everyone. One day before the circus began the lemonade went missing and Uncle Al blamed it on the working men, claiming that if it happened again he would take away their pay. Then later when the lemonade went missing again and Uncle Al forced the working men to give up two quarters each to pay for it. The working men began to get infuriated,
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