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HaileyMart
I read most of it but haven't found time to finish it...i just want to know how it ends...i read up until Marlena left the train and was hiding out in the hotel room.
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Marlena goes back to the circus....not to go back to August but to perform. And Jacob sneaks back and sees that a bunch of the fired/red-lighted workers have come back to sabatage the show. They free all the animals in the managerie and it causes a stampede. Jacob runs to Rosie's tent to find Marlena, who is cornered by August who is trying to ... strangle her I think...Rosie is there also and picks her stake up out of the groud and bashes Augusts head in. And Jacob and Marlena go to work for the Ringling Bros circus and have a bunch of kids...some of them grow up in the circus but they eventually stop travelling with the circus and get a home.
We know from the beginning of the story that Marlena dies before Jacob...and he's travelled across the street to the circus since his son forgot it was his day to hang out with him. It takes him so much time just to walk across the street that the circus is over but he ends up talking to one of the workers and tells him he worked on the Zambini Bros circus...the guy knows a lot of historical circuses and knows about the stampeded disaster and it's sort of unofficially decided that the man agrees to take the old Jacob alone on the circus.
Marlena goes back to the circus....not to go back to August but to perform. And Jacob sneaks back and sees that a bunch of the fired/red-lighted workers have come back to sabatage the show. They free all the animals in the managerie and it causes a stampede. Jacob runs to Rosie's tent to find Marlena, who is cornered by August who is trying to ... strangle her I think...Rosie is there also and picks her stake up out of the groud and bashes Augusts head in. And Jacob and Marlena go to work for the Ringling Bros circus and have a bunch of kids...some of them grow up in the circus but they eventually stop travelling with the circus and get a home.
We know from the beginning of the story that Marlena dies before Jacob...and he's travelled across the street to the circus since his son forgot it was his day to hang out with him. It takes him so much time just to walk across the street that the circus is over but he ends up talking to one of the workers and tells him he worked on the Zambini Bros circus...the guy knows a lot of historical circuses and knows about the stampeded disaster and it's sort of unofficially decided that the man agrees to take the old Jacob alone on the circus.
Do you remember going to the circus as a kid?
Mercy Stic
I'm thinking of taking my kids, but the tickets are really expensive. Wondering if the memories would be worth it???
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I definitely remember but it was certainly more of an experience than it is now.It was really a circus then. It was outside,not in a building. Not really outside but in a huge tent which had been erected outside. There was no television when I went & it was really a very special thing. Kids see so much on TV now that a circus might seem tame to them.No that is not so. What could be more exciting for a kid than to see the aerialists flying from trapeze to trapeze.They can't see the elephants & live clowns up close & personal either. One thing I would miss about it would be the freak shows they used to have. I wish they hadn't done away with them. Your kids will also be excited when the animal trainer gets busy with the big cats.Be sure to take along enough money to get them some cotton candy.
I definitely remember but it was certainly more of an experience than it is now.It was really a circus then. It was outside,not in a building. Not really outside but in a huge tent which had been erected outside. There was no television when I went & it was really a very special thing. Kids see so much on TV now that a circus might seem tame to them.No that is not so. What could be more exciting for a kid than to see the aerialists flying from trapeze to trapeze.They can't see the elephants & live clowns up close & personal either. One thing I would miss about it would be the freak shows they used to have. I wish they hadn't done away with them. Your kids will also be excited when the animal trainer gets busy with the big cats.Be sure to take along enough money to get them some cotton candy.
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