... swindled out of their wages. The Meat packing plant or the Slaughter House was symbolic of the horrors the immigrants went through. The animals in the pen of the Slaughter House where representative of the working class immigrants who worked in the Slaughter House. The Slaughter House was symbolic of the end. Once the immigrants came to the Slaughter House it was the beginning of the end. Similar to the ... animals that were brought into the Slaughter House they no longer had control of their fate. After they ... ...

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... order to survive. For Jurgis and his family, the slave master is the ruthless and greedy meat packing industry, whose leaders value their workers no more than the animals they slaughter. "The Jungle" shows the relationship between the animals that were being slaughtered and the workers who were slaughtering them, from very early in the novel. It compares the workers to ... saying "Leave it to me; leave it to me. I will earn more money- I will work harder." (Pg. 19) Even after Grandmother Majauszkiene told the family about the history of the house they lived in. How each of the families ...

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• Grade Level: High School