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Jungle

The Jungle by Upton Sinclare was the novel I chose to read for this final section.

This book was 359 pages long with 31 chapter inside. From beginning to end, this book

had detail unlike any I have ever read in the past this year. The way this novel was

structured was a one sided view of how the industrial age was horrible to live in. Sinclare

hated this time and used this book to show how bad it really was.

Two very major character in the book happen to be a couple. There names are

Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite. The couple meet in Lithuania, where the book begins,

and later move to Chicago in search of a better life.

Jurgis is a young Lithuanian immigrant that is well minded. He is very eager to

find work and be a good husband. His main purpose in life is to protect his love, Ona.

Jurgis is very determined to make the best of everything and believes that he will have a

happy ending. He sadly is mistaken when he finds out how hard life can actually be. His

wife dies while have her second baby. He becomes depressed and some what crazed.

Through out the book, Jurgis gets many jobs. Such jobs include working at the meat

house, the steel mill, the fertilizer plant, digging holes and at a porter. Also through the

book we come to find out that Jurgis has a bad temper. Many times in the book he gets

into fights and is eventually hauled to jail each time. Lucky Jurgis is able to land on his

feet after every obstacle. As for Jurgis's counter part Ona, her story is a bit different.

Ona is basically her husbands opposite. She has blue eyes and fair skin, he has

dark hair and tan skin. She is small and tiny for her age whereas he is a huge monster. She

has education and Jurgis has none. While living in America with Jurgis, her life is a rough

one at that. She has many distractions in her way. She must walk in the rain to a job that

she hates. After she returns to work early after the childbirth, she grows sick. We later...