Topic: Compare and contrast the boy’s story of his ancestors’ graveyard with the legend of the elephants’ graveyard.
In “Elephants” by Patrick Lane, the similarities and differences between the boy’s ancestors’ graveyard and the elephants’ graveyard are shown in terms of their popularity and their obsolescence. Both the boys’ ancestors’ graveyard and the elephants’ graveyard are forgotten and abandoned. The boys’ ancestors’ graveyard is buried and “no one will ever find it” (47) because it is covered by the new highway. No one knows that a graveyard exists under the highway and it is abandoned. At the same time, the elephants’ graveyard are abandoned by the animals. The animals “go away to die somewhere” (38) far away and no one has ever
