The book The Jungle stats out with the wedding of Jurgis and Ona who immigrated from Lithuania to Chiacgo. After a while hold a wedding and ask for guests to give gifts of money but most dont and they dont have enough for the wedding yet they promise to work harder. Their family and them quickly find jobs and agree to buy a house unknown that its a poor house with lots more costs than shown. The jobs they get though are not ones that require a lot of thinking but rahter hard working labor, with little to no regard as to good working conditions and environment. Jurgis's father finds a job but had another man help him and agreed to pay him 1/3rd his wages but the work soon kills him. Jurgis during the winter has to work in a slaughter house with
