Water for Elephants Explained in Six Scentences

In the beginning of the book, we meet a man called Jacob Jankowski who is very unhappy with his life because he is stuck in an old people's facility where they treat him like a child; he begins to reminisce about his life before coming to the facility. We find Jacob in veterinary school when he gets the notice that his parents are dead and he has no possessions, causing him to make a rash decision to leave town on foot and maybe look for a job. When he jumps the Benzini Brother's circus train not knowing what it was, Jacobs' good luck comes into play- he doesn't get killed for trespassing on the train; instead, he is welcomed because he is a vet, and he stays to work for them. That leads him to meet Marlena, who is someone that looks very much like someone he knew from his old life and is married and August- Marlena's husband who is going crazy and very unstable. When he fights with Marlena's husband and his boss, he is in danger of getting killed, but instead his two closest friends on the train get brutally murdered; after that, there is a giant animal stampede, and the great circus comes to its end, ruined by the press, allowing Jacob and Marlena to run away and start their lives together and raise a family. Water for Elephants is a historical novel about a circus and it's struggles set in the Great Depression and the prohibition on alcohol.