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
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Water for Elephants – Journal 1 In our discussion on Friday‚ no one else read the book so I was stuck trying to piece together what they knew‚ what happened in the book‚ and how to write a decent report on what has happened so far. So far in the book‚ we read about Jacob living in the retirement home and coming in contact with a fellow who claims he carried water for elephants. Elderly Jacob flashes back to when he was twenty-three. His parents had just died in a car accident; he skipped out on
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2011 and directed by Francis Lawrence‚ “Water for Elephants”‚ takes place in 1931 and tells the story of a young veterinary student who loses everything after his parents’ death. While on the search for a solution to his newfound homelessness and poverty‚ he happens to hop the train of a traveling circus where he puts his almost completed veterinary degree to use taking care of the animals in the circuses menagerie‚ and most importantly‚ Rosie‚ the new elephant. This job proves to be much more challenging
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Writing Assignment #1 The Help and Water for Elephants Translating a novel into a film is not as easy as one may have thought. Due to time constraints‚ characters and/or scenes may be eliminated and therefore may not have the same impact as a novel‚ but this is not always the case. The Help written by Kathryn Stockett and published in 2009. The film version was released on August 10‚ 2011 by DreamWorks and directed by Tate Taylor. The cast includes Emma Scott (Skeeter Phelan)‚ Viola Davis
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I decided to take a chance on Sara Gruen’s novel Water for Elephants‚ after reading the rave reviews of the book posted on several social media sites by friends and acquaintances. The truth is‚ it is summer and I am desperate for a distraction away from my recent obsession with Grey’s Anatomy reruns fueled by Netflix’s instant queue. So I purchased the book and slowly began retreating from my computer screen that stole 42 minutes of my day as I sat captivated by Dr. Owen Hunt’s passionate kissing
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No to Abuse! “Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is- whether its victim is human or animal- we cannot expect things to be much better in this world.”- Rachel Carson. In the novel Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen‚ there is a charismatic but twisted animal trainer named August. You may think his name reminds you of the month August so‚ therefore‚ he has a sunny disposition. Don’t let that fool you for one second! While his name suggests
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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
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The movie poster for Water For Elephants taken by‚ ??????‚ shows two people‚ a man and a woman‚ passionately holding each other while standing in the middle of the image. The man is holding the woman’s lower back and is looking down at her‚ his forehead resting upon the top of her head. She is lightly resting her hand on his bicep and has her head down toward his chest. Both of their eyes are closed and their bodies are pushed closely against one another. The man has on a dirty white cotton long
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Similarities Between Ghost Boy and Water for Elephants The circus is a setting common to both the Iain Lawrence novel Ghost Boy and the 2011 film directed by Francis Lawrence Water for Elephants. The film and novel are similar in many ways. The circus during the Depression and the war provides and immediate similarity in the setting for both stories. Characters in both the film and the novel share similar traits and characteristics creating strong protagonists and antagonists. These characters
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Analysis Essay 9th Novemember 2011 Water for Elephants In a recent interview for “Collider.com”‚ Robert Pattinson‚ a household young actor‚ revealed that he was offered with various movie characters that he could choose from as his next role after starring in the “Twilight” series. Finally‚ he decided to play the role of Jacob Jankowski in a film adaptation directed by Francis Lawrence‚ “Water for Elephants”. Why did Robert Pattinson choose to act an orphaned and impecunious
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