Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen: Flash Summaries

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Chapter Summary 

Jacob Jankowski, the narrating voice, is in a nursing home. He's still recovering from a hip fracture and tells us about life with old fellows: the widows and the crippled, and the life that is escaping from them, as sand falling through their fingers without them being able to grasp it. 

In front of the nursing home there is a park where a circus is setting its tent and attractions. The elderly are talking about it during dinner, remembering how it was when the train circus was coming into town, when an incident happens: one of them, a newcomer, says that he used to bring water for the elephants. Jacob is outraged and calls him a liar and an old coot, elephants drink too much water. He is then taken to his room to avoid further scandal. 



Editor’s Notes: 

At this point we only understand the current situation of the narrator and main character, Jacob Jankowski. As an elderly, he will talk about memory, aging, death, and parting from the loved one. He talks with melancholy, as most old people do. This chapter raises the question of the elderly and their place in society: is there nothing to gain from them? Is the human being disposable? There are many ways to attend to this question; just as we can see from the different treatments that the elderly receive depending on the culture and society they belong to.