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.