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Water For Elephant By Sarah Gruen Character Analysis

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"I've always loved the idea of not being what people expected me to be" - Dita Von Teese. The novel Water for Elephants" by Sarah Gruen is about two main characters. Jacob, who just lost his parents in a cruel, sufferable way and to deal with this tragedy Jacob leaves town to only stumble upon a circus. He joins this circus as a close to almost vet; considering he didn’t exactly take the exam but did go to school. He meets many new people and falls in love with someone so unexpected. Rosie is the second character, August bought her, a mean and abusive man. Rosie is perceived as a dumb bull, but later to be found out she's smarter than anyone could ever imagine. Due to Rosie's inability to comprehend English, people perceive her as stupid; however, she later turns to be an asset to the circus. “ ‘nodge,’ he says [to Rosie]. ‘no, daj nodge!’ after a moment the elephant lifts her foot and holds it in front of her.’’ (Gruen 226-227). Rosie can’t understand English causing her to get abused when she is being spoken to by August, but when Greg speaks to her in Polish Jacob observes that she understands. This gives Jacob an idea on how to train Rosie without her being beat by August. …show more content…

“…she rewards him by removing his hat, placing it on her head, and then posing with her trunk curled in the air” (163). This shows that Rosie is intelligent because August would never believe that a dumb bull could do this, and when she did something that proves that she's smart when someone talks to her in a language she understands, she can do great

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