more specifically‚ Jurgis an immigrant working man. In The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair‚ Jurgis and his family suffer and experience hardships in almost every area of their lives.The most traumatic experiences for Jurgis and his family were the loss of many family members‚ the hardship of obtaining a safe job‚ and falling victim to swindling. One of the traumatic experiences Jurgis dealt with was the lost of many of his family members. Throughout the book many of Jurgis’ family members dies
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Throughout Upton Sinclair’s novel‚ The Jungle‚ Jurgis Rudkus descends into an abyss of poverty as he journeys through the industrialized urban jungle known as Packingtown. Allowing a family of Lithuanian immigrants to be his farmhands‚ Upton Sinclair plants the seeds of socialism into readers’ minds‚ hoping for a prosperous season. Jurgis’s journey through the depths of American Capitalism tarnish his soul‚ leaving him a mere shell of his former self. The slow annihilation of Jurgis’s family at
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book‚ The Jungle‚ argued that the meatpacking industry in Packingtown had caused so many deaths‚ injuries‚ and corruptions which weakened the American Dream. Sinclair supported his argument by demonstrating the poor conditions of an immigrant couple‚ Jurgis and Ona‚ and their immigrant family through the use of pathos to bring out emotion of the evils of Packingtown‚ words to bring emphasis to the claim of the story‚ and symbolism to bring out the meaning of the title. Sinclair’s purpose was to argue
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with the wedding of Ona Lukoszaite and Jurgis Rudkus who are immigrants that arrived in Chicago from Lithuania. Their wedding takes place in an area of Chicago called Packingtown due to it being the center of the meat packing industry. During the celebration the guest are supposed to drop money into a hat to help pay for the wedding. But most guest dropout of the party without contributing any money and the newlyweds are unable to pay the bill. This is when Jurgis promises that he will find a job in
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becomes pregnant again. She becomes very upset‚ but she doesn’t tell Jurgis why. After she fails to come home one night‚ Jurgis confronts her. She breaks into tears and tells Jurgis that her boss‚ Connor‚ has forced a sexual relationship on her and Jurgis leaves
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with constantly working. One of the preeminent characters‚ Jurgis‚ was the man of the family as well as he was often depended on by his family. Jurgis was indignant one time at work furthermore‚ they were greatly piqued by this event. They confided on Jurgis moreover‚ had no choice however to scrape by to wait for Jurgis to educe a job back. The progenitors went through arduous times‚ financially. My cogitation for talking about Jurgis along with his clan barely scraping by‚ in result of myself
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immigrant Jurgis wants to better his and several members of his family’s lives. He does this by packing up and traveling to America‚ but he is unaware of the downfalls in his future. The family members who came along with Jurgis are Ona‚ his soon to be wife‚ Jurgis’ father Antanas‚ Ona’s stepmother Elzbieta‚ her three kids‚ and her brother Jonas. When they arrive in Chicago (Packingtown) they are scammed into buying a house as well as at a loss of money for the unpaid wedding reception. Jurgis claims
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about the harsh conditions and hard lives of working immigrants during the early 1900s. The story follows a Lithuanian man named Jurgis Rudkus and all the hardship and tragedy he endures. Cinderella Man directed by Ron Howard is a film about the famous boxer James J. Braddock. The film shows the hardship James and his family suffer during the Great Depression. Jurgis Rudkus and James J. Braddock show similarities from the beginning‚ middle‚ and end in their physical traits‚ relationships and emotional
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is turned into a jungle .Sinclair uses similes and metaphors to demonstrate the comparison between animals of the jungle and the people . For example in chapter 15‚ when Jurgis finds out that Connor “the great beast” rapes Ona‚ Jurgis “eyes were wild and his hair flying‚ and he was breathing hoarsely like a wounded bull”. Jurgis "sprang" into a room to find Connor‚ "his prey‚" and “sunk his teeth into the man’s cheek‚ and when they tore him away he was dripping whit blood‚ and the little ribbons
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Jurgis and Ona‚ have recently immigrated to Chicago from Lithuania‚ hold their wedding party at a bar in Chicago or Packingtown. The couple and other family members like Marjia‚ Ona’s‚ and Jonas the brother of Ona’s stepmother‚ Teta. They have come to Chicago for a better way of life‚ but Packingtown‚ is the center of Chicago’s meatpacking industry. After the wedding celebration‚ Jurgis and Ona notice that they are a couple hundred dollars short to the saloonkeeper. Jurgis feeling ashamed
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