'Water for Elephants' written by Canadian native Sara Gruen, was released as a movie in 2011 and brought in over 16 million dollars opening weekend. The story focuses on the life of a circus show during the depression and a young man named Jacob Jankowski. Jacob is veterinarian student who literally, runs away with the circus when his parents are in a car accident. There he meets the beautiful staring attraction Marlena and her husband August, the ringleader. August is horribly deranged and is cruel to the animals, especially an elephant named Rosie. Throughout the story men from the train are thrown off while moving because the circus owner can not afford to pay them. This speaks to the theme of the depression and the suffering some people went through at that time. In the end August is killed by the elephant during a stamped started by men that survived t being thrown from the train.
The movie is very similar to the book in many ways and in some ways even better. The beginning of the movie is not as long as tedious as it is written in the book. Jacob as an old man begins explaining his life to a man working the circus near his old age home. There were a few real differences in the movie then in the book and one is the character of Uncle Al. In the movie August is the main villain, but in the book there is also the circus owner Uncle Al who portrays greed and the lengths some men will go to to survive.This was a seriously tough call because both are so well done in their own ways. The book just offers more to the relationship of Jacob and Marlena and the people involved in this circus. All in all I say you need to READ IT
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