the harsh working conditions at meat packing factories and also the cleanliness of the factories. The novel then starts talking about the corrupt politicians and the rising socialist party in Chicago‚ both real events. It puts the main character Jurgis (an immigrant) in the middle of all these events and really lets you get a feel for the times. The first event Sinclair incorporated into his novel was immigration. Immigration was happening all over the United States and in each city it happened
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mills‚ or in the meat packing industry. Jurgis Rudkus was one fo these dissapointed immigrants. A sweeper in slaughter house‚ he experienced the horrendous conditions which laborers encountered Along with these nightmarish working conditions‚ they worked for nominal wages‚ inflexible and long hours‚ in an atmosphere where worker safety had no persuasion. Early on‚ there was no one for these immigrants to turn to‚ so many suffered immensely. Jurgis would later learn of worker unions and other
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In the early 1900’s life for America’s new Chicago immigrant workers in the meat packing industry was explored by Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle. Originally published in 1904 as a serial piece in the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason‚ Sinclair’s novel was initially found too graphic and shocking by publishing firms and therefore was not published in its complete form until 1906. In this paper‚ I will focus on the challenges faced by a newly immigrated worker and on what I feel Sinclair’s
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young man and women have migrated from Lithuania to Chicago in search for a better life. They soon learn that in Packingtown‚ the center of Lithuania has no jobs available and the conditions are rough. In the process of their wedding arrangements Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite they come to an understanding that they are in more than hundred dollars in debt to the saloonkeeper. Everyone ends up having to look for a job because
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The Jungle Questions 1. Upton Sinclair depicts the lives of Jurgis Rudkus and his family to closely resemble the true lives of the working-class of America during this time period. The word bitter best describes the challenges faced Jurgis’s family. For instance‚ mostly whenever anything happens to Jurgis’s family mostly everything has a negative outlook on their lives. First‚ a large portion of Jurgis’s family has to undergo the cumbersome working conditions Packingtown has to offer. Ona‚ Grandpa
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was too late until they realized it was a fraud. Despite the circumstances they tried to have hope. Jurgis thought everything was going well and refused his wife or children to work. "Little one‚ do not worry – it will not matter to us. We will pay them all somehow. I will work harder." (Sinclair 34). Unfortunately‚ the lack of money leads them to get evicted. It also leads the family to do what Jurgis did not want them doing. Ona and their thirteen year old child‚ have no choice but to get a job. Forbidding
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America from Lithuania. Jurgis quickly finds a job at a meat packing company. After some time‚ they buy a house and go into a great debt that they can’t pay. Ona’s boss Phil Connor forces Ona into having sex with him and scares her into keeping it a secret. When Jurgis finds out he confronts Connor and starts to attack him‚ only to be put in jail. After he is released he finds out the they lost the house and the rest of the family is homeless and broke. Ona dies so Jurgis leaves and travels the
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behind Jurgis’ actions‚ and evokes emotions of anger‚ shock‚ disgust‚ and towards the end: happiness from the reader. When Jurgis had thought early on in the book just after he had gotten his first job that Durhams was protecting him and helping him‚ Sinclair chimed in‚ “So guileless was he‚ and ignorant of the nature of business.” (Sinclair 34) Sinclair tells the story from a God-like perspective‚ where he’s in the mind of Jurgis but seems to not control it‚ but has a heavy opinion on Jurgis’ actions
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in hopes of a better life‚ but their dreams are soon crushed by the reality of the countries capitalist ways. As soon as the family arrives to Packingtown‚ Chicago they realize how awful the living and working conditions are. The main characters‚ Jurgis and Ona get married and have a child. One of the family members‚ Marija‚ even begins prostituting to help support the family. When the family arrives to their destination in Chicago they automatically smell the stench of rotting animal flesh
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the journalist role well‚ actually spending seven months in Chicago where he studied the inner workings of the meatpacking industry. The experience allowed him to describe first-hand the sickening environment of the modern industrial factory. After Jurgis loses his factory job‚ he begins a frustrating search for new employment. Eventually he is forced into taking a job at the fertilizer plant‚ the worst place in the town. Sinclair makes it clear that the worker will‚ in fact‚ be working in sewage.
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