The story water for elephants is told from a series of memories of Jacob Jankowski as a 93 year old man that is in a nursing home. in 1931 a woman named Catherine hale is taunting him Jacob thinks to himself how he's still a virgin even though he is about to graduate and he is ashamed of it.The class got interrupted by the school dean who pulls jacob out of the class with something eagerly important to tell him. The dean tells him that both his parents have died and just like that Jacobs Jankowski’s whole world changes. Jacob had to go back to his hometown so he could take a look at his parents bodies seeing his parents bodies just lying there makes him throw up. As you might think he must feel super alone.
Jacob ends up going back to his old house where everything still looks the same way as if his parents were still living. Jacob is filled with grief because of the fact that his parents are dead People come help him and he finds out about his parents will. Times have been hard on his parents so they died with hardly any money his dad was too nice to people that couldn't afford treatment. It turns out that being nice was a bad idea now his family's house and the veterinary …show more content…
They declared love for one another and took down August with all they could. They ended up having 5 children and they even had their circus which was the ringling brothers. Both jacob and Marlena grew old with each other till Marlena died Jacob says he did everything he could and gave everything for her. One day the circus came into town and his son forgot to go so he did but when old Jacob go there it was too late Cause they had already