The book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a book that tells about the working conditions of the meat packing industry located in Packing Town, a district in lower Chicago USA. In the book a family emigrating from Lithuania, and coming to America to start a new life, encounter hard times. James Braddock is an Irish emigrant who comes to America to start a life, He becomes a boxer and fights his way to the top. After the Depression hits, he is hit just as hard as everyone else is; he works in ports to make little to no money just to survive. At the end of The Jungle, Jurgis is a worker who finds his way once more and makes good money. At the end of Cinderella Man, James is the Heavyweight champion and is making his way out of his depression and onto a good life.
Jurgis Rudkus is a tall, dark Lithuanian man who comes to America with his fiancé in search of a better life in the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. James J. Braddock is a tall,
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He becomes the Light Heavyweight Champion and fight for his belt. He saves up enough money to buy a nice house, marry his wife, and own a New York taxi company. Once the Great Depression hits, it turns his world upside down. During the first part of the Depression, James and his wife have 3 children and are living in an apartment in the basement of a building. They sold their house, taxi service and nearly everything else. Then James breaks his right hand in a fight, is unable to continue as a boxer, and is forced into a short retirement. During his healing process, James becomes stronger with the use of his left arm (because his is right side dominate) and learns to work with both hands. After his old fight promoter gets him back into the ring, he quickly claims the Heavyweight Champion Ship belt against the dangerous Max Baer. After the championship and the Great Depression, WW2 broke out and James and his fight promoter where given the Call to Duty and served in