Jurgis And Onas Summary

This is a story of a Lithuanian immigrant name Jurgis Rudkus who came to America with his new bride Ona and their families. Like all immigrants who come to America hoping to like the America dream he moves his family to America to work in a meatpacking company in Chicago. This story tells of the hardships of Jurgis and his family, they encounter a lot of difficulties Starvation and poverty, hard and unsafe working conditions, crooked businessman who took their money, and corrupt politicians who made laws to allow the things that Jurgis went through to happen. And because of all the hardships he and his family go through opened his eyes and accepts the new political and economic revolution of socialism.
The story begins on the day of Jurgis and Onas wedding, the star of the wedding was Tamoszius Kuszleik who provide music with his out of tune violin, and a woman who was a strong and
Jurgis brother tell them about a friend who went to America in Chicago he had made a fortune so Jurgis made a decision to move both families Chicago, but when they got there it was not at all what they thought it would be. They encountered several crooks and thieves that scammed them and that even though the wages were higher so were the prices and soon their money was gone.
Jurgis found a job at a meatpacking plant sweeping blood and innards of slaughtered cattle into a drain. The conditions were very unsafe and the work was backbreaking. The workers were resentful about their working conditions, and Jurgis couldn’t understand why the men were not happy to have the opportunity to work and earn a living. In the neighborhood where they lived was polluted and corrupt slums. The packing town was built on a garbage dump the whole city smelled of garbage and filled with flies, they still felt there was opportunity and potential in the new