Water for Elephants (durring reading) Crossword
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
 
 
Down: 1) The main love interest and a star performer with the circus. Marlena marries August, the ring master. She enjoys a special rapport with the horses and cares for them deeply.2) A dwarf with whom Jacob shares living quarters on the circus train. Initially, their relationship is rocky, but they develop a strong friendship. At the beginning of the story, he is known as Kinko. Walter is his real name and he only lets his friends call him this. He has a Jack Russell Terrier named Queenie to which he is very attached.4) Marlena’s husband and the head animal trainer. He is alternately charming and brutal, both to the humans and animals aboard the Benzini Brothers train. Later in the book, it is suggested that he is a paranoid schizophrenic to excuse his violence.6) One of the first people Jacob meets when he jumps the train. Camel is a drunk who is instrumental in getting Jacob a job with the circus. When Camel gets "Jake Leg" from drinking contaminated Jamaican ginger, Jacob and Walter hide him in their train car and care for him.7) An elephant that Uncle Al buys from another circus. She is believed to be useless until it is discovered that she understands commands only in Polish. She is often the target of August’s rage. Across: 3) A nurse in the nursing home where Jacob lives who is especially kind to Jacob, despite the fact that Jacob can be very rude to her.5) The violent, abusive owner of the circus. He is known for redlighting circus workers – having them thrown off the moving circus train in the middle of the night to avoid paying them. 8) He is a "ninety or ninety-three"-year-old nursing home resident reminiscing on the time he spent as a circus veterinarian during the Great Depression.
 

 

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