Themes of Our Lives Essay-the Alchemist, Water for Elephants and the Notebook

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“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew” this quote is summing up the affect love can bring to one eye. William Shakespeare has been writing about love for a long time. Love is a prominent theme found throughout Gruen’s Water for Elephants, Coelho’s The Alchemist, and Cassavete’s The Notebook. In the novel Water for Elephants and the novel The Alchemist the theme love is represented throughout as well as the movie The Notebook. Water for Elephants written by Sara Gruen represents the theme love throughout the novel; Gruen shows this through the character Jacob Jankowski. Jacob Jankowski is a college student getting his degree for veterinarian medicines just like his father. Jacob’s love towards his parents was very loyal and strong, he didn’t want to let them down. When Jacob was attending Cornell University he was set for veterinarian medicine, he had the exam in front of him ready to start until the professor took him aside and told him some devastating news. The news was horrifying, Jacob was now facing the fact that his parents were in a car crash. The theme love contributes towards his parents when he finds out that they have passed away, Jacob stands tall and copes with this tragic happening, and continues on only to find everything isn’t how he thought it was. Jacob now has nothing, no parents, no home to live in and no degree in veterinarian medicines but he has hope when he hops aboard a train. The train is loaded with animals, performers and hard working men. Jacob jumped onto the Benzini Brother’s Most Spectacular Show, where he becomes a vet for the animals. “I’ll do just about anything. But if possible I’d like to work with animals” (Gruen, 57) the theme love is represented between Jacob and the animals in the circus. Jacob shows his love towards the animals when his passion and knowledge from studying veterinary sciences helps

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