The book I chose to read for my summer reading project was Water For Elephants. My book was about a boy who's parents died in a car crash so he had nothing at home and one night he hoped on a train and it ended up being the circus.along the way he runs into many troubles on the train like falling in love with the main act and trying to learn what is right thing to do and what is wrong. It is told in present time but takes place in the past, 1931 The Great Depression. The theme of the book was love. It appears many times through out the story but there was one time that really stuck out to me. At the end of the book after the animal rade and everything went wrong Rosie the Elephant drives a stake through August's head. This was a loving moment, even though it sounds tragic it was a great moment in the book because August was trying to hurt Marlena and Rosie remembers when August hurt her becuase August would abuse Rosie with the bull hook. This is loving because it shows how close Animals and their trainers can get and shows how protecting animals can be and their instinks.
