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Water For Elephants Book Report
Water For Elephants Literature may be a world away from home— getting caught up in the ballad of love or whisked away in the adventure. Despite that, one of the best qualities of it is also how much a person can take away from that story, regardless of the reality of it. Many books call for action; others provide a unique perspective that the reader can learn from, and moreover, just as history has foretold, it’s imperative to shift a tunnel-vision view to a funnel-vision view. What Sara Gruen may have intended to show in “Water For Elephants,” I might take in a completely different manner. That’s why I chose to exhibit my own angle in a compiled scrapbook that will be just as outré as the book’s Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.

Approximately half way through the 335 paged book now, it has been pretty well illustrated how cruel circus conditions once were. Though PETA might argue how they still are, I doubt that the African native creatures known as elephants are still abused as much as Rosie is in the book. Since I’m indubitably not a sole advocate of animal compassion, part of the scrapbook will illustrate the notorious road of the circus industry.

Though not previously intrigued by the fact that the circus industry has been around for quite a while, there is obviously some rich culture that is
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Since I have yet to reach a part where everyone’s birth date is given, part of the comprehension will be in finding whatever characteristics best match the characters. The interesting part about my vision here, is that each zodiac sign has not only a certain set of traits, but usually their compatibility is also given. With a growing romantic interest, and even animus between certain characters, the zodiac sign should give some insight on the role of the character as well as how they

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