The Jungle: Chapter 14

In this chapter, Elzbieta goes to work in a canning factory like Jurgis where things get more unsaintary due to the fact that spoiled meat is canned and made into products that are resold all over the world. This fact alone is quite disturbing to me. To make matters worse, some of the children of the family have gotten sick including Antanas. Jurgis is scared for Ona and himself when he finds out that she is pregnant once again.

The Jungle: Chapter 13

Having to take up jobs that were deemed unsuitable must have been hard for Jurgis and Teta Elzbieta. They both had to get these jobs simply to help support their family.  Sadly, Elzbieta's son passed away from a horrible disease called rickets. Because of this, she was urged to get a job. Jurgis was able to get a job at the fertilizer plant, which he did not enjoy, but he's willing to do anything for his family.

The Jungle: 12

In this chapter, Jurgis loses his job during the time it took for his foot to heal. This greatly impacted the family because they relied somewhat on Juris' income, this meant that the family's entire income would be cut. This made it much harder for the family to want to work, but luckily, some of the children in the family were able to find a job selling newspaper. For the rest of the adults in the family, they became much more stressed than before.

The Jungle: Chapter 11

In chapter 11, Jurgis and his family under go the struggles of having to pay for  their board and many other expenses while they are trying to feed and care for themselves. Jurgis’s foot is still unfortunately injured, and he feels angry about this. However, the one thing that makes Jurgis happy now is his son.

The Jungle: chapter 10

In chapter ten, Jurgis and his family go through the struggle of having to live with not being able to pay off their debts and other payments. They encounter problems with their house which only causes them to have pay even more money that they don't have. Additionally, Marija lost her job at the paint factory and eventually got a job at another meat canning factory. Although Marija did not like this job at all, she still went through with it to help support her family.
This chapter was really sad because showed some of the horrible things people had to go through, especially if they were in the working class.

The Jungle: Chapter 9

I found it really disturbing how people who were working in the meat packing industry getting away with manufacturing  meat that contains a lot of diseases. In fact, Mike Scully an Irish Democrat enterprises & helps the packers to get away with their unsanitary practices.

Aside from this, Jurgis begins to learn English and is encouraged to become a U.S. citizen. This is one example of a positive experience for Jurgis and his family, but I believe that things will continue to look down for the family.

The Jungle: chapter 8

During chapter 8,  Tamoszious the well-known fiddle player, begins to fall for Marija. He tries to woo her by playing especially well at the celebrations that they are invited to. Luckily, his charms work on her.
Unfortunately for Marija, she experienced some not so amazing things at the canning factory. For one, the factory closed down and Marija was left jobless.
Aside from Marija's misfortune, some of the men who work at the stockyards, including Jugris were cheated on by their bosses for their pay by docking them an hour for being only a minute late. Soon after this uproar begins, Jurgis is willing to fight for his rights, so he decided to join the union with his family.

The Jungle: Chapter seven

Because hardly anyone donated money to Ona and Jurgis during the veselija at their wedding they are now in a lot of debt. Not only this, but lots if sicknesses have been going around Packingtown. To make it even worse, winter has already begun and it makes it much harder for everyone to go work, putting Jurgis, Ona, and the rest of their family into even more debt. 

One thing is for certain, Jurgis is not willing to give up on Ona or his family yet, but this could shortly change due to all of the unfortunate things that are happening to their family.

The Jungle: Chapter 6

In chapter 6, Jurgis and his family meet their neighbor, Grandmother Majauszkiene who explains to the family that when buying or renting houses, people can cheat you for your money. The family learns that they have to pay interest on their house, which in turn, makes it harder for the family to pay for their rent.

Grandmother Majauskiene explained that she came to Packingtown when the workforce was mainly German. She went on to say that the Irish took over the Germans' place and that currently, the Slovaks have taken over the place the Irish were in.
Also, Ona gets a job where she sews covers on hams in a cellar.

Overall, this chapter goes over the fact that people are often cheated on for money or other factors. However, it's also important to try and work with what you have in order to obtain the things that you want or don't have.

The Jungle: Chapter 5

In chapter 5, almost every one in the family gets a job and works hard to keep it. However, within Packingtown, people have been saying that they hate their jobs and their bosses. Jurgis believes that these people are just lazy and they don't care to join the union.

Whenever one of the family members would get a job, they would be over joyed because they would be able to help support their family. On the other hand, people who were being replaced probably felt angry because someone else was taking their job, which meant that they would have to find another job to support either themselves, or their family, only to be most likey replaced within their new job.



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The Jungle: Chapter 4

In chapter 4, Jurgis  starts his new job of sweeping the entrails of slaughtered cattle through trap doors. For his work he makes a small wage of seventeen and a half cents an hour. Even though this might appear to be a very insignificant amount of money for the hard work he is doing, Juris is happy he is able to work because it's better than earning nothing for doing even harder work. Additionally, Jurgis is helping to support his family, along with Marjia and Jonas who are also working hard at their new jobs.
If I were to be in the same situation as Jurgis, I believe I would also be happy to work for a small wage if it meant that I would be able to support my family.

The Jungle: Chapter 3

In chapter three, Jurgis goes to get a job at a slaughterhouse. Fortunately, he is able to get his job almost instantly. When Jurgis is being showed around at the slaughterhouse, he sees that all workers seem to act like "zombies." The workers would be known as zombies because they continuously work at the same tasks everyday which causes them to not have very much enthusiasm at their jobs.

The workers seemed to not care about the animals they were butchering, just as they did not care about the new workers who were trying to get a job at the slaughterhouse. The workers lack of concern for both the animals and the new workers was shown because they had blocked a lot of things out of their lives just so that they could continue to do their jobs.

Upton Sinclair portrayed the factory conditions as unsanitary and dingy because people weren't doing a very good job at cleaning up their work spaces.

The Jungle: Chapter 2

In Chapter 2, the author sets up a back story that explains some of the experiences Jurgis had before and after he met Ona and her family. The chapter also went over some of the factors that took place for Jurgis while he was coming to the United States as an immigrant. From seeing how difficult it was for Jurgis to adjust to the new environment he was going to be living in, I'm sure that it would be difficult for me, as well as anyone else in the same situation as Jurgis.
When Jurgis and Ona arrived in the U.S. they met up a friend who was from Lithuania, Jokubas Szedvilas, who brought them to Mrs. Jukniene who owned a filthy boarding house. Even though the family wan't in the best situation, they hoped that their situation would be temporary.

The Jungle: Chapter 1

In chapter one, the author presented a ceremony called a "veseliya" which was a traditional event that took place in a Lithuanian wedding. However, for  Jurgis and Ona's wedding the veseliya that took place was not considered hardly at all because they felt that people were leaving without donating any money. This put a considerable amount of stress on Ona because she needed to pay for a lot bills for wedding and many other factors outside of the wedding.  Jurgis, on the other hand, seemed as if he was just trying to stay strong for Ona because he would convince her that he would take care of any of the bills they had to pay for. But, this didn't mean that Jugris did not feel any stress as well as Ona.

From this, it would appear that the veselyia tradition was most likely not considered by the guests that were invited to the wedding. When the guests were presented with many wonderful things during the wedding, it was easy for them to take advantage of those things and they did that by not giving back to the bride and groom.

Hello, this is Noelle. I like riding horses, and I will be writing about the Jungle.