Water for Elephants
Book • 2006
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Arguably so - a man searches hotels in search for his wife when she runs away. But this isn't really described much and only goes on for a day or two
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A character's husband is often violent. He has "moods" in which he is wonderful, others in which he is awful. Very abusive person overall.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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A friend of the protagonist is an alcoholic and gets very sick because of it.
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Does a horse die?
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A quite graphic scene of a horse being put down happens early in the book. It is for the horse's benefit instead of violence, as it is ill and won't heal.
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Romana
Mentions of elephants being killed
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Are animals abused?
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Huge part of the story. If you're really sensible to it I recommend not to read the book.
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Does a cat die?
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There are cats in the book, but none of them die.
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See "raped onscreen"
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Bodily Harm
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izzie
A character almost kills another with a knif. He describes the blade and putting it close to the other's neck.
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Does a head get squashed?
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izzie
This scene is in the prologue and is told again near the end of the book.
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Is there a hanging?
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A character is mentioned to have died by being hanged or suffocated with a rope.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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People are thrown out of a moving train, and at one point it's over a bridge. There is no scene of this happening but the practice is mentioned often.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Some descriptions of eyes being injured by fights and concussions
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Children
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Family
Does a parent die?
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At the very start of the book.
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Are there clowns?
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Only brief mentions, but the majority of the book is set in a travelling circus
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There were at least three instances
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Does someone spit?
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Tons of tobacco spitting throughout
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Not a hospital as such, but an old people's home which is described as being similar, with people called 'patients' and various medical checks being carried out regularly
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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One aggressive and violent character is at one occasion said to be a paranoid schizophrenic (this isn't really explored, or confirmed or denied)
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Main character wakes up having been stuffed in a trunk while passed out from alcohol
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Many of the circus performers are described as 'freaks' - e.g. dwarves, women with beards
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K-word slur is used once, and some secondary characters are shown to be anti-semitic. Protagonist, however, is Jewish
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Are there fat jokes?
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No jokes as such, but the circus has a 'fat lady' who is part of the show
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Is there hate speech?
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Some anti-Semitic language
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Is there sexual content?
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Lots of it, in the whole book. Some scenes are quite explicit.
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Vehicular
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Mentions of an 'automobile accident' killing some characters
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