Analysis Of The Poem ' Jurgis Rudkus '

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.

The poem “ Feliks Skrzynecki” communicates to the responders that as a result of the Skrzynecki family migrating to Australia, Peter had lost a significant aspect of his life which was his relationship with his father due to the barriers that had arisen restricting them from proper communication.

making him less human. Even though Jurgis makes money from his work, it is not enough to

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

Jack gantos was born in Pennsylvania but grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His dad was always working following the job anywhere it took him. Eventually Jack moves to St. Croix where he is struggling to make money for school. Jack is then approached by a man named Hamilton to smuggle drugs from St. Croix to New York city for ten thousand dollars and accepts not giving any thought. After accepting and completing the job he is tracked down by the feds. Jack becomes a fugitive of the law and is on the run. Jack then turns himself in and is sentenced to a federal prison. In prison jack becomes a x-ray technician which rewards him with a cell away from the general population. Living day to day hoping to get out Jack applies for college despite being in prison and is accepted leading to his early release.

First, Jurgis caused his own distress by not listening to other workers. These workers had been at Packingtown far longer that Jurgis, and they knew the truth. They knew about the debt and loss that comes after working in Packingtown, and they tried to tell Jurgis his was going to come crashing down at some point. But still Jurgis did not listen. It was after his first day at work that he began to realize, with a sinking feeling, that perhaps the other workers were right, saying “When he came home that night he was in a very sombre mood, having begun to see at last how those might be right who had laughed at him for his faith in America” (Sinclair 72). Jurgis was beginning to see that the others were right, and yet he still didn’t listen, and kept going with job. Shortly after, he gets pulled into debt and can no longer escape. Jurgis was his own enemy, taking the bait of the trap, even when everyone told him not to.

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

The hidden purpose of the subway system which Jurgis helps to construct is to break the teamsters’ union. Because Jurgis got hit by one of the rail freight cars, he broke his arm and lost his job.

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 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.

Has life ever been so rough that you had to fight through it? Jurgis is a fictional character in the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair; he is a Lithuanian immigrant who comes to America with his family of twelve looking for a wealthy life. James Braddock is a nonfictional character from the movie Cinderella Man written by Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman, he is a professional boxer from New Jersey, and has to use his second chance to fight for his family’s survival. Although James and Jurgis both go through rough times, there are many similarities as well as differences in their physical traits, family dynamics, and personal values. Both Jurgis and James were strong, good-looking men but changed after their families where put through obstacles.

The corruption of the United States government was especially present within Packingtown; Packingtown was a nickname for the Union Stockyard in Chicago. Sinclair describes it as “a study in colors now, this smoke; in the sunset light it was black and brown and gray and purple. All the sordid suggestions of the place were gone-in the twilight it was a vision of power. To the two who stood watching while the darkness swallowed it up”(page 29). The sky is being described as engulfing the building with an array of dark colors. Jurgis thinks the colors are great, but Sinclair is showing how dark the city is. The people believe they see the kindness, but was the government hiding an abundance of things from the public. The corrupt government is hiding their dark actions within the less darker colors. The corrupt government was also functioning within the workplace itself. Jurgis suffered as a result, including when “Jurgis was ordered to remain and do some special work that normally the injured man had done”(page 62). Jurgis was forced to do

Living in the bottom of the class system, capitalism takes a toll on Jurgis and his family. His