His story also had a lot of foreshadowing about some evil deed he had done that he was being sought by the police for, which turns out to be much less than what I was expecting. We aren’t sure who he is writing this story for until the end, but eventually that becomes clear. but then again, it is historical FICTION. I find it a bit unbelievable that after over 80 years, he could remember with such clarity every single detail of what people were wearing, exact conversations, etc. He decides he must write the story of the giraffes to share with someone, so he furiously begins to write. He sees an account on the tv that giraffes are becoming extinct, which enrages him and makes him dwell on his 1938 experience driving the giraffes across country at the age of 18. The story is told by Woody Nickel (Woodrow Wilson Nickel) as he sits in a nursing home nearing the end of his life at age 105.
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