Later down the road, a circus ringmaster named Percival Bowles bribes Woody with money, and convinces him to open the giraffe crate. Red shares with Woody that she suffers from a broken heart. The family generously feeds them and buys them a new set of tires, getting them safely back on the road. They experience the kindness of strangers when a poor black man named Moses enlists his entire family to remove the truck from under the bridge. In Tennessee, Woody and the Old Man get the giraffe rig stuck in a precarious position beneath a low bridge and are unable to get it out by themselves. Unbeknownst to him, she is a married woman and is being pursued by the police for stealing her husband’s car and crossing state lines without a male chauffeur. She and Woody slowly form a relationship, but she does not share Woody’s affections. Red follows the giraffe rig taking pictures she hopes will be published in Life magazine. Woody displays an unusual gift for working with animals, and the Old Man agrees to keep him on as the driver for the duration of the journey.
The Old Man reluctantly accepts, but only wants Woody to stay on for the first part of the journey. He uses a stolen motorcycle to follow the giraffes, and when the Old Man’s driver, Earl, suddenly quits his job, Woody propositions him to be the new driver. While waiting for the giraffe rig to begin its journey, Woody meets Red and falls in love with her at first sight. He resolves to follow them to California. Down on his luck and unsure of his future, Woody sees the Old Man tending to two giraffes who almost died in the hurricane. He finds his only living relative, a cousin in New York, where he works until his cousin’s death in a hurricane. Woodrow Wilson Nickel is a 17 year old orphan boy who is forced to leave his home after his family’s tragic death during the Dust Bowl. He realizes that he must tell his story for the sake of the animals he loved so much, and so that Red’s daughter Augie Ann will know her mother’s true story. The following summary relies on the present tense.Īs his life closes in on him in a convalescent home bed, Woody hears about the impending extinction of giraffes and punches the TV. The novel is divided into 16 chapters named after the place where the chapter’s events transpire and are intermingled with newspaper clippings, telegrams and postcards. The past tense is used in Woody’s recounting of the story, and the present tense is used in sections that describe Woody’s writing process in the convalescent home. Lynda Rutledge’s West With Giraffes is written in the first person point of view, and utilizes both past and present tenses. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Rutledge, Lynda.
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