What is so fascinating about circus life?
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Re: What is so fascinating about circus life?
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I think that it's amazing, and it's some peoples way of escaping life and creating a new one that seems fun and interesting. Hard, but a normal life can be hard as well.
2. Are you still going to the circus? What do you love/hate most about the circus?
I don't go to the circus anymore, even though I have kids. I have not decided on if we would or not. When I went as a child, I really didn't enjoy it that much, but I only went a couple of times. I also have a strong heart for animals, and sometimes it seems kind of mean depending on the circus I guess. I love the candy, colors, and the imagination the most though.
3. How is circus life described in the book?
It's describe as it is, intriguing, imaginative, and that it can be a hard life as well. But it's the attraction the thrills that keeps someone coming back.
4. Is Duke satisfied with his new life as a sword swallower?
So far from what I read, it's a paying life. He enjoys the circus season more, but it's part of the job to wait till then and it sounds like he is content in his everyday life with the circus from what I've read so far. It's done him some harm, but it may of helped him as well.
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I think the lifestyle appears glamorous to many people for several reasons. First, when you go to the circus, it's to have fun, and so you always associate enjoyment with every aspect of circus life, though clearly that's not the case for those who work there. Second, it's a completely different lifestyle. The constant traveling, new cities every weekend, and the late nights and late mornings give the circus an out-of-the-ordinary aura and therefore appeals to the average weekday worker. Lastly, a circus is meant to appear glamorous. It hides the ugly parts behind tents and mirrored boxes and tricks, and it shows you the glitz and pomp and excitement of amazement.
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The same from my side. I think it's just that in a circus almost anything goes and people that wouldn't generally be accepted are accepted there. You can't be strange if strange is the norm.Christina O Phillips wrote: ↑01 May 2018, 10:21 I myself am drawn to the circus because it is so different from my day to day life: the activities, the food, the culture, the types of people. I enjoy stories that have a circus or traveling show as the setting (The Night Circus, a season of American Horror Story). I do not go to the circus anymore, but I do go to county fairs still. I am not done with this book yet so I can't answer the other questions.
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I haven't been to a circus in years, and with their loss of popularity the big circuses are dying out. Someday, kids who are mad at their folks will have to find somewhere else to ruin away too. The tragic life of most real-world runaways doesn't come close to the release from daily cares we seek.
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