ELEPHANT MAN NOVEL

Character Traits/Moral Values/Themes

Examples Evidences
· Dr. Treves is a doctor at the hospital. Character traits
He pays 12 pence to see Merrick. After Kind/helpfull/caring/loving
that, he brings Merrick to the hospital to
examine him.
Message/Moral values
· Dr. Treves finds a way to help Merrick
1. Dr. Treves · We should be kind.
get a home at the hospital by telling
helps Merrick Mr.Gomm about it. · We should be helpful.
· We should be loving and caring
· During Merrick’s stay at the hospital,
Dr. Treves visits him everyday and talks to
him so he will not feel lonely. Themes
Kindnesss/love and care

Character traits
Kind/caring/ loving
Mr Gomm writes to The Times newspaper
and asks for the public to help Merrick to
2. Mr. Gomm helps
stay in the hospital. He gets £50,000 in a Message/Moral values
Merrick
week and Merrick can now have a home at
the hospital. · We should be kind
· We should be caring
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· We should be loving

Themes
Kindness/love and care

Character traits
· Dr. Treves introduces a beautiful Kind/grateful/caring/loving
young lady to Merrick and she gives him
some books on their second meeting.
Message/Moral values
3. Merrick starts · Merrick also becomes friends with her · We should be kind.
making friends and Majesty, Queen Alexandra. They talk
becomes friends · We should be grateful.
about books. Her Majesty even sends him
with the Queen. Christmas card and present. After that · We should be loving and caring.
Merrick writes a letter to Queen Alexandra
to thank her.
Themes
Kindness/gratefulness/love and care

Mrs. Kendal and three nurses help Merrick Character traits

to watch his first play at the theatre without Kind/grateful/loving/caring
4. Merrick goes to anybody seeing him. Merrick enjoys the
watch the play show very much as he laughs and tries to
sing like the children. Message/Moral values
· We should be kind.
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· We should be grateful.
· We should be loving and caring

Themes
Kindness/love and care

Character traits
Selfish/disrespectful
· Silcock treats Merrick poorly and uses
him to make money in London.
Message/Moral values
5. Silcock takes · Silcock takes Merrick to Belgium
· We should not be selfish.
advantage of where many people want to see him. He
Merrick takes away the £50 that Merrick has saved · We should respect everyone.
and abandons him alone in Belgium.
· We should be kind to everyone.
Merrick finds his way back to London and
is later found by the police. Theme
Selfishness

Character trait
Some people laugh at Merrick because he Disrespectful
is ugly. One day, a new nurse goes to his
6. A nurse is scared
room and sees him there. The nurse
of Merrick because
screams and runs out of the room. This
he is ugly. Message/Moral values
makes Merrick sad and it is not the first
time such thing has happened to Merrick. · We should respect everyone.
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Theme
Prejudice

Character traits
-grateful

Merrick takes a train to spend 6 weeks at

the countryside. During his stay there, he Message/Moral values
7. Merrick enjoys
enjoys the nature. He listens to the bird -We should be grateful for the beautiful
the nature in the
sing, watches the fish swims, makes nature around us.
country.
friends with a dog and picks some pretty
flowers to put in his room.
Theme
Love for the nature.