Q2: Blog8

I read another chapter of "Water for Elephants" today. This chapter focused on the narrator, who is now 90 or 93 and in a nursing home. Much of the chapter is about aging, as age has taken it's toll on the narrator. He no longer remembers his age, or what year it is, and to him it doesn't really matter.
The plot picks up when all the people at the nursing home watch a circus that is coming to town, with most people planning on attending the circus the upcoming weekend. The narrator makes no mention of his time in the circus, as he never does. However, when a man claims that he carried water for elephants, the narrator almost blows his cover. He simply can't help himself, he gets so angry. He calls the man a liar, knowing that elephants drink more water than anyone can carry. they get into a very aggravated conversation before the nurses intervene. While the narrator doesn't tell the other man about his time in the circus, he does slip up to a nurse, but then refuses to give any more information.
The reason for the name of the book is revealed, as there is an argument about water for elephants. This chapter shows the life of a sad old man. He talks about how he sometimes would choose death over his misery, and about how he is glad his wive died first so that she doesn't have to deal with what he is dealing with. I continue to like this book because I appreciate the compassion of the old man and others, as well as the very real depictions of the circus and the past.