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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

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The story The Jungle was a very mischievous novel about a man named Jurgis Rudkus and his family, who were immigrants that came from Lithuanian to America to work in the meatpacking plants of Chicago. The Jungle was a story with factual events occurring with fictional characters participating in them. The story follows Jurgis and his family while they face multiple difficulties, including inhuman and dangerous working conditions, living in poverty, starvation. The story begins at Jurgis’s wedding where he marries a woman named Ona Rudkus. Marija Berczynskas is the director of the wedding, and a man named Tamoszius Kuszleika provided music on his violin. Jurgis and his wife Ona are originally from the countryside of Lithuania. …show more content…

Part of the neighborhood was built upon a garbage dump, and the entire part of the city reeked like garbage and was filled horribly with flies. Jurgis still felt as though he still had much potential in this new land, however. Jurgis decided to go to the meatpacking plant and immediately was hired for a job sweeping blood and insides from slaughtered livestock through a drain. The job was hard and the conditions were very unsafe, but Jurgis was a strong and stubborn man and could not comprehend any man who was not thankful for the opportunity to have a job while earning a …show more content…

Their work was difficult, and while so Ona becomes pregnant, she was forced to continue working and given only a week off to have her child. She then returned to the workforce too quickly and was beset with pain and sickness for the rest of her life. Jurgis finds that Ona does not come home from the factory one day. He finds Ona and questions her, she explains to him that she was being forced into sexual relations by one of the meat plant bosses. This infuriated Jurgis, who went to the meat plant where he beat the man almost to death. Jurgis was then thrown in jail and couldn’t work causing the family to fall into an even greater economic

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