Outside Reading Week 1 - Post B

In the first few pages, a TON of stuff happens! First, Jacob's parents die in a tragic car accident, just before his final test at college to become a vet. Second, Jacob walks out on his final at college because he is too depressed about his parents to finish. After he leaves the classroom, Jacob walks until he doesn't know where he is anymore. It is then when he discovers and jumps a random moving train. There he is greeted by rough looking men who inform him that he has just joined the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.

I can't believe Jacob! He walks out of an Ivy League school during his final test in becoming his dream job and goes a jumps a train? What the heck?? Sure, I would be extremely depressed if my parents died, but come on. Couldn't he just ask his professor for an extension or something? Also throwing yourself on to a moving train? Umm... are you crazy?! It amazes me that he then agrees to joining the circus after seeing the unsanitary and rough life the men live.

Although, Jacob is offered a job as being the circus's vet, so maybe all of his hard work at school won't go to waste. So far he is only looking after the show's horses. Are they going to get elephants, or when do they come into play? Oh, and won't people be looking for him back at home? I really hope that Jacob will be alright. He's a good kid, and I hope that by joining the Benzini Brothers, he isn't throwing his life away.