There is a family that came to America from lithuania. They made it to chicago finally. They didn’t know this but their life was going to become very hard. Long story short they have a few obstacles and they all are very close to jurgis emotionally. All of these obstacles hit him very hard and emotionally destroyed him. He tries very hard to run from his pain but gets put in jail with an old friend his friend begins to show him a new lifestyle which eased his pain. Jurgis is one of the most honest immigrants, him and his new family try so hard in this new place but they are mistreated by people. They get jobs but they are paid very little for the tremendous amount of work that they do. Jurgis’s dad antennas finally gets a job in a pickling room but later dies from the job and his death greatly upsets Jurgis but he knows that he knows he has to be strong and keep going because he still has to support his family. Later Jurgis finds out that one of the big bosses named connor which is onas boss rapes ona and jurgis responds like any man, he gets very angered by it and goes after the man with complete rage and beats him, Jurgis later gets put in jail. His family slowly starves while he sits in jail with nothing he can do.when he finally gets out to find his wife nearly dead from starvation and the baby. She later dies from this baby. This is another death that affects jurgis. He almost throws his whole life away and tries to get drunk but then he remembered he still has a son
A week after Ona gives birth, her bitter boss makes her return to work. She is very upset, and her health takes a turn for the worst. Though still working the family is stressed about making ends meet. Ona is forced into prostitution and raped by her boss. When Jurgis finds about about this, he is more than livid. Jurgis goes right to his face, and ends up brawling. The fight makes Jurgis go to jail, which he finds more enjoyable than being free due to the roof over his head and being fed well. While in jail, he begins making a friend who is extremely knowledgeable about the criminal underground. Jurgis saw the money to come with being a criminal, and saw it as the best way to provide for his struggling family. Hilldrup faces the same difficulty as Jurgis. He feels defeated, like he cannot prove himself, so he turns to money as a way of comfort, no matter the way he gets it. Yet, still no one wants to be apart of him at the end because he was a
Jurgis suffered throughout his lifetime, he would be drunk and he lost the job at the meat factory. Jurgis and the rest of the family found jobs, but, it didn’t lead for the best. Jurgis came back to the tenement to find all the women crying and to find his son, Antanas, who drowned in a puddle. Jurgis fled to become a hobo during the summer and was able to get a job at a farm. He blew his money on alcohol and prostitutes; Jurgis stopped thinking about his future or his family. Jurgis became a bitter man and a criminal because if society got any worse for him, he would get payback.
What could they do? It was clear this was as far as he was going. But Paul wasn’t giving him the other half of the money either. He had the pistol if Miguel wanted to take things any further.
Iris walked on the dirt path of the village. The wind blew her black curly hair behind her as she walked, and her tattered blue skirt swished in sync to her footsteps. She walked up to the only place that her feet could take her, and that was the Village Store. She stared at the sign in front of her. “White People Only.”
Seeing the man behind them pull a gun, Dominic fired a shot out the window as he yelled for Paulie to drive. Two quick shots came back at them. As Paulie raced away, Dominic let three more rapid-fire shots fly before they turned the corner and were out of sight.
It was a nice October day and Bertha and her family were out on a hike in the woods when suddenly, SQUISH! Bertha heard a bug crush underneath her foot. “Eww,” she stated in disgust, “I just stepped on a spider!” Bertha desperately tried to get the spider guts off of her shoe as her dad said, “You should have watched where you were walking sweetie! That spider could have a family that it was trying to get back to!” Berthas dad had a thing about not killing bugs because he claims that what goes around comes around, but Bertha thought it was silly since they were just meaningless bugs. “Yeah okay,” Bertha sighed. So Bertha, her mom, her dad, and her sister Delaney all continued their hike but Bertha kept on killing the small bugs that would land on her arms.
Jurgis and his family have very bad luck, and under the conditions they live in, Getting sick is extremely easy, and getting treatment is extremely hard. Jurgis gets hurt multiple times at work because of a dangerous environment, and is forced to stay home without receiving any pay. Sickness and disease spreads quickly among the poor workers, a reason being the extremely poor hygiene at the factories where they all work, and they also can not afford good enough health care. Ona dies while giving birth in her
“We could split up and search the house once more to see what we could find,” I announced as I look deeply into his bright blue eyes.
Mr. Johnson put on his uncomfortable shoes and then trudged out into the way to bright morning sunshine. He was not in the best of moods, so when he stopped at a newspaper stand to get his daily morning newspaper, he spoke very angrily the the salesperson to “hurry up.” When another man came to buy a paper, Mr. Johnson quickly stole his wallet and hid it in a secret pocket in his jacket. Then he acted extremely sorry when the man couldn’t find it and even paid the 60 cents for the paper, so as to not look suspicious.
It’s all over now, Mr. Today is dead. Quill won the war and invaded A time, and the guards locked us up. A couple of unwanteds were sent to the Great Lake of Boiling oil, guards behind them. “Well.” thought Alex, “this is it.”
The speeding motorcycle took the sharp corner so fast in the darkness that both policemen in the pursuing car shouted “Whoa!”
"Let's see." Rin said as she picked out her lipstick. "Should I use the maroon or the rose?" She held the two up to the light to judge the color. "Maybe you should where none and then jump of the school's roof." A little voice in the back of her head said manically. "Oh shut up." she moaned as she put the lipstick on. "Sweetie come get your breakfast." Rin's mom shouted from down the hall. "Coming." Rin yelled back. "Maybe you could not eat and starve yourself to death." The voiced said again. Rin groaned and sat at the table. Her brother came in, fresh from the shower. "Morning. Dad already leave?" He said as he shoveled spoonfuls of oatmeal in his mouth. "Ya know, eating too fast will make you gain weight. And since your not in sports you might want to think twice about your eating habits." Rin said in a matter-of-fact tone. "You can be a bitch, you know that?" Len said as he gritted his teeth. "Take that back Rin. Your not like that.", the voice echoed in her head. " I'm sorry for stating the truth fat ass."
Okuyasu waited outside of your house with a nervous smile, rocking back and forth on his heels. The scene of him asking you out replayed in his head repeatedly, to remind himself yes, this really is happening. The door opened, and you reveal yourself to him, wearing the cutest outfit you could put together. Okuyasu’s mouth dropped in awe of how great you looked, and you smiled, stepping out and locking your door behind you.
As Nora was running she saw all the people that worked at the training facility coughing on the ground. All the smoke from the fires had filled their lungs and they couldn’t breathe all too well. The sound of them coughing made Nora think of the night her father got in the car accident. That was the last time she saw her mom before she left. The emotions from that night filled Nora’s head. She started to question whether she could trust her mom anymore. What did she need the stone for? Why was she so protective over it? Was it really needed to save the universe or was it just so she can be even more powerful? The thoughts were interrupted by a voice.
While a man was laid up his family could starve or freeze to death, and after a series of such injuries, if he survived, he would be too crippled to go on doing the work. When Jurgis is healthy and overflowing with life, he gets a job immediately. When he becomes an empty husk of his former self he is reduced to beggary. Even among beggars he finds a jungle of savage competition, in which the truly needy are often at a disadvantage.