... true; Jurgis comes to America and meets Ona, the daughter of a rich man. When her father dies, Ona becomes available, and Jurgis struggles for a long time to earn money for a house and marriage. When this finally happens, in spite of the swindlers and desperate conditions inPackingtown? Chicago, the future seems bright for these young people. Jurgis and his family are still ... , of course; Jurgis gets another job, this time in a fertilizer plant. For him, the plant issteaming pit of hell,? but he is determined to survive and hold on to his house and family, even on the miserable low wag...

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• Grade Level: High School

... some families would be able to survive with everyone working and the Rudkus family almost does. Sinclair's main character Jurgis is one of the men working in the slaughter yard at the meat house. He describes the horrors of working there with blood all over everyone all of the time and if a cow or pig would happen to get loose how they ... what occurred in the early 1900's to the immigrants who needed to find homes and or jobs to survive and how either low pay at their job or when buying a house as the characters were tricked people always cheated them. Upton Sinclair also painted a viv...

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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