Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen

Author:Sara Gruen [Gruen, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Circus Animals, Romance, Books and Reading, Depressions, Historical, Entertainers, Elephants, Book Clubs (Discussion Groups), Circus, Fiction, Literary, Triangles (Interpersonal Relations), Group Reading, Historical Fiction, Circus Performers, 1929, Depressions - 1929, General, Parents, Love Stories
ISBN: 9781565125605
Google: xYB159x1EekC
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2006-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

65.

AUGUST

We don’t have the time! She has to

start earning her keep MOVE! UP!

UP!!

August stabs her other shoulder...harder...continuing to shout. Rosie is getting agitated...pulling away from him but constrained by her chain. Her eyes fearful.

Other performers rehearsing in the area begin to watch as August strikes Rosie harder and harder. She begins to bleed.

Jacob tries to stop August by going for the bull hook...

JACOB

Please, August, let me try again.

But August angrily pulls it away and turns on Jacob: AUGUST

Don’t tell me my business! You

don’t want to watch this, get the

hell out! Making love to it ain’t

going to work. Besides, from what I

hear, you’re not that good at it.

(To Rosie)

GET UP! UP!!!

Jacob watches, upset and furious at August’s treatment.

INT. MENAGERIE TENT - TUXEDO PARK, NY - LATER THAT DAY

Rosie’s flesh is dotted with wounds from August’s bull hook.

Jacob is applying zinc ointment to them.

JACOB

I’m so sorry girl. Just a few more

here. Hold still.

The un-staked canvas flaps behind Rosie wave up with the breeze....Rosie’s trunk rises. She smells something from outside the tent.

When Jacob bends down for more ointment, Rosie tries to turn around but her chain is still staked into the ground. As Jacob straightens up, he sees:

Rosie’s trunk carefully wrap itself around the stake and pull it up out of the ground. ... She then manages to turn herself around, her butt to Jacob. Rosie’s trunk then dives down and up under the canvas flaps.

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