The Jungle was a book I was wary to read at first. With the depressing theme growing tiring, it was hard to get through this book properly. It was somewhat enjoyable in some chapters, and in others it was drab. It was probably the most dreary book I’ve read yet. It was a strenuous task to get through the entire thing in one sitting ; it wasn’t read in one sitting, I had to keep putting the book down. From the way the book starts out, it is painfully obvious that Jurgis’s family’s journey will not end well. With little money and a poor understanding of English, moving to America was the wrong choice. While it may have been bad in Lithuania, they didn’t fair any better in Chicago. You could almost feel the tragedy about to come from their
