Jurgis Rudkus as a Dynamic Character in Upton Sinclair's the Jungle

(Jurgis looking for a job) "He stood in the doorway, looking mournfully on, seeing his friends and companions at work, and feeling like and outcast. Then he went out and took his place with the mob of the unemployed… But there was no work for him…He wandered all day through the buildings; in a week or two, when he had been all over the yards, and into every room to which he has access, and learned that there was not a job anywhere… there was nothing more for him to do but go with the crowd in the morning and keep in the front row and look eager." (p. 148-149)

After these tragedies, Jurgis leaves Chicago for a time, and 'hobos it' in the country. In doing this, he finds a way of life that is similar to the one which he left in Lithuania. In the winter, however, Jurgis must return to the city. Upon his return, he sees the other side of the coin. He becomes involved in crime, graft, and vote buying.

“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

Written at the turn of the 20th century, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle took place in an era of unprecedented advancement in civilization where the American economy had risen to become one of the wealthiest on the planet. However, Sinclair asserts that the rise of capitalist America resulted in the virulent corruption and competition that plighted society into an untamed “jungle.” Shown by the corruption of the Chicago meatpacking industry, Sinclair highlights the repulsive filth of human greed that was created as a byproduct of the economic boom. The effects of industrialism and the rise of untamed capitalism is what raped the superfluity of workers, like Jurgis Rudkus, of the opportunity to uncover prosperity in America. Not only does The Jungle capture the brutality and acceleration of corrupt capitalism and ruthless Darwinism during the Progressive Era, it also prompts resistance and displacement of the existing political system in favor of a socialist revolution. Through the novel, Sinclair demonstrates how the deterioration of the American Dream was exacerbated by the capitalist greed and corruption that eventually drove Jurgis and his family into mental degeneration and despair.

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.

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.

People in this story live in a very dis honest world, it's a rough life and it's almost impossible to live comfortably and make an honest living. Jurgis tried to be an honest working man but all the frauds and dishonest people around him made an influence. You see the dishonesty throughout the book cover to cover. Jurgis has several encounters with people who constantly try to cheat him out of his money or are dishonest about their intentions. You can see one encounter in the early pages of the book when jurgis and his family first arrive to america, they're looking for kettles and pots for there new house and the man that they bought them from cheated them out of a few pots. You can also see this late story when jurgis is trying to get his 100 dollars changed the man he asked him to change it. The man took the money from him and changed him 95 cents.

Jurgis was a good man before he moved there. He was a good honest and worker who would always work hard and do what he was told. After a while with the way everything was, he started to change and adjust to everything. Being honest and always doing the right thing would either get you killed or you would become homeless. You would have to lie to get through work. You would barely get to see your family because you’re working from morning to night. He started to turn into a criminal by stealing stuff. He beat up his boss because he raped his wife. He went to jail for that my dog that aint cool you can’t be doing that man. When he first moved there he was buff and healthy but now that he been there for a while he’s starving and his house isn’t sanitary or clean so he’s very unhealthy. He becomes selfish because he starts stealing from everyone like his friends, coworkers, and boss.

The deeper that Jurgis and his family go into the jungle, the more it takes from them. After the death of his son and a second round of prison, Jurgis loses contact with his remaining family. Packingtown comes to be less of a struggle and more of a battle ground as Jurgis becomes involved with crime and the politics of the city. Through his prison cellmate, Jack, Jurgis slowly becomes sucked into the darkness of corruption and soaks in the wealth of being a union patsy. When he again attacks Phil Connors, he loses his set up within the

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