Analysis Of The BookThe Jungle, By Upton Sinclair

After leaving jail, Jurgis had the opportunity to become incorporated into a life of thievery, with a man he met the first time he was in jail, Jack Duane, and together the two partners robbed people of money and jewelry, and soon it bothered Jurgis not to see a man harmed after he was mugged by the pair. "A month ago Jurgis had all but perished of

So he goes to Brown’s and gets noticed by one of the bosses for his outstanding physical condition among the others. The conversation between Jurgis and the man who hires workers does not show any emotional interaction, but just solid dull talking. Even though Jurgis tells the man that he cannot speak English, it does not bother the man at all, because for him, being able to do all the required manual labors is enough to hire Jurgis. The man asks if Jurgis can shovel guts by speaking to him in Lithuanian: “Zarnos. Pagaiksztis. Szluota! [Guts. Rake. Broom!]” and Jurgis replies that he is capable (32). In this process, it shows how choosing workers is not based on how knowledgeable they are, but only their capability for physical labors. There is no problem for Jurgis to be not able to speak English, meaning that, in the future, there will not be any need for communication between the workers and the bosses, but they should just obey and do their work. The scene illustrates a side of capitaliem where Jurgis and all the other workers are displayed like objects letting the capitalists choose according to their taste or by comparing the efficiency among the

Beaten down, angry, and depressed, and newly widowed, Jurgis missed a singly monthly payment on his house and gets evicted. He and the rest of his family sacrificed much for this house, only to get thrown out on the curb. To make matters worse, his son, only son soon dies. After all the challenges he faced, Jurgis officially turns to a life of crime, robbing, and picking fights with bartenders. But, he overcomes these obstacles by becoming an ardent socialist. He soon gets himself a job working as a “night porter” in a hotel, catering to guests needs. Eventually the book ends in full circle, Jurgis is has hope for the future (despite all of his

As the story goes on Ona and her baby Antanas both die. Ona during child birth and Antanas will drowned in front of the house. Jurgis will then move out of the city to the suburbs leave all of his family behind. Later returning to Chicago and getting himself into a lot of trouble with the law. After some time of being in and out of jail Jurgis finally gets a job working at a hotel. He will become back in touch with his family that he left and begin to support them on what he makes by working at the hotel.

Another form of exploitation that doesn’t allow Jurgis and his family to achieve their American dream is the long hours of labor they must work in order to maintain the family alive. These unhealthy long hours of labor that they must work brings the family physical and mental pain. When Jurgis starts to work in the meat packing plant he is exited and happy to have a job, soon after he discovers that he is engaged in unfair labor activities as well as unsafe food handling. In chapter 11 Jurgis suffers from a terrible accident at work. The company doctor tells him that he'll be laid up for months with a severe ankle and foot injury. The accident poses a terrible problem for the family. Without Jurgis' wages, they might starve. “It was dreadful that an accident of this sort, that no man can help, should have meant such suffering. The bitterness of it was the

Jurgis was in the poor-working class that he never really get money maybe like $5 a week

“Order of society”, this is in reference to how there are a few people who have monopoly over the whole city, and that the working men are just pawns in the whole charade. And the crooks are the power pieces in an elaborate game that belongs to the kings. Jurgis starts off as a pawn or a working

Jurgis always struggled with money even when Ona was on the verge of dying. Jurgis finally convinced the women but Ona didn’t make it on time because it was too late already. Upton Sinclair shows you the struggle Jurgis went through with money and it wasn’t a fair life for him. When Jurgis lost both Ona and his son Antanas he was begging and a drunk man gave him a 100 dollar bill, that next day he enters a bar to receive change but the bartender tells him he has to buy a drink first, once he does the bartender only gives him 97 cents and refuses to give him his change. Jurgis then gets in a fist fight with him but then is sent to Jail. Once he was a prison he realized the life of crime was the best way to survive as an immigrant, then Jurgis finally loses his hope of getting that American dream he always wanted. Jurgis had a good reason to feel like this because he kept getting turned down by jobs and had nowhere to stay, he was homeless.

In The Jungle, Jurgis and his family are immigrant workers that moved to the United States to live the American Dream. Throughout their journey in the United States, the family suffers from illness as well as accidents in the workforce. The family is trying their best and working hard to understand what it takes to live in America as an immigrant. Jurgis experiences the hardships of working and also providing for a newborn baby that Ona has just given birth to. Jurgis has lost his grandfather, Dede Antanas, to an accident while he was working, and knows that it is going to happen, but works hard the best he can. In the film, Cinderella Man, James has boxed his way to the top, but also experiences the hardships of needing to provide for his family during the Great Depression. He has to give his children to Mae’s family to help take care of them as they figure out how they will pay for their bills. Suddenly, James is awakened by a second chance. Joe has found him a fight, not for as much money as James would like, but enough to help get back on his feet and hopefully pay as much of the debt back that he can. This second chance then leads to more fights that he trains for to get back on his

At this point in the story, Jurgis viewed that there is no place for him in this world.

She prematurely went into labor, which kills her and their child. Devastated by what he saw, Jurgis disappears on a drinking binge. Making no money, becoming an alcoholic, and his wife’s death threw him into a downward spiral where he thought nothing could make it worse. All of his problems were driven by the poor treatment of the immigrants. Nobody cared enough to help him and employers would keep the people who would settle for less pay, no matter what problems they had.

Jurgis' family continues to suffer despite the fact that they have purchased a house. However this is just another con of a sleazy person trying to make a living. The house is cheap and poorly built and is actually being rented until all of it is paid for, allowing the tenant to evict the family for just one late payment. Jurgis, still clinging to the thought of the American Dream, takes a hard hit when he learns that his wife has been forced to prostitution by her

Jurgis and his family were faced with many predicaments related to these poor surroundings and circumstances. The family hastily saw that they must enter the competition forced upon them in a social Darwinist fashion. When he first arrived in Packingtown, Jurgis found work quickly in the meat packing industry because of his strong, young stature. As the years went by, however, and he grew plagued with injuries and financial troubles, Jurgis found work to be evermore difficult to obtain and hold. The social system cracked down on the family and offered nowhere for the Rudkus' to turn for help.

Truth be told, Sinclair demonstrates that the working environment security was greatly low and representatives were at the high danger of harm similar to the instance of Jurgis companions, relatives and Jurgis himself. In the meantime, the damage of laborers frequently implied the loss of employment that demonstrates that the mid 20th century specialists were not secured in their rights. Now, it merits specifying the way that lawful demonstrations that legitimately secured representatives, who endured wounds or had incapacities, were presented just in the late 20th century, for instance the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Consequently, the carelessness of managers and absence of worries about their representatives' wellbeing was a standard in the US in the past and this disposition has

Jurgis, even if originally confronted with this newfound scenario, would not have sold, Ona even if it meant prosperity. Jurgis was too attached to Ona and her eminence of purity to even consider this at the beginning of the book. The only reason he even considers this now is because of the Connor incident, which destroyed the veil of purity. Before this, Jurgis was content with Ona only belonging to him, and he never wanted to change this because he loved her so much, but after Connor molests Ona, Jurgis seems detached from her. This detached feeling makes Jurgis seem to consider other women in different ways he never would have before. Before the rape, and her eventual death, Jurgis never seemed to consider any other woman as even pretty, but after there have been many occasions where he has said a woman was good looking, and even as far as beautiful. This shift in his view of woman doesn’t only change how he feels about protecting his wife, but also justifies how his morals have changed. Most recently, Jurgis never seems to mention Ona at all, although you can’t blame him, but he seems to have moved on enough to consider a new relationship. Even though he has stated he doesn’t want to remarry, he still seems to want to bond with a new woman.