In Upton Sinclair's novel “The Jungle” which published in 1906, many of tragic things happen to Jurgis Rudkus and his family as they move from Lithuania to Chicago, and try to make a new life happen for them in America. Rudkus and his family which includes Ona Lukoszaute, his wife, Teta Elzbieta Lukoszaute, Ona’s stepmother, Marija Berczynskas, Ona’s cousin, and Dede Antanas Rudku, Jurgis’s father. All expect to be happier and live better in America because that’s the dream, right? They find out VERY quickly that, that is not always how it works.
After Jurgis’s family makes it to America they try to find work and when they finally do it is for a packing company that has a good wage but a terrible job, Jurgis just goes with it no matter how bad it is because he is raising money for his family. There is hope looking …show more content…
In this novel many of the characters died, some in more tragic ways than others. This novel shows that when someone's time comes there is no way to win a fight with destiny no matter how unexpected it is. For example when Jurgis goes and witnesses Ona’s death, who to mention was his wife, who died because of having a premature child that most likely was not even Jurgis’s child (158). Then there was also the part where Jurgis goes out and gets a job to be able to feed his child Antanas who he finds out coming home one weekend that he died tragically by going outside to play around but then falls into the mud and drowned, so not only did Jurgis lose his wife but he also lost his child (175). Then there was when Jurgis returns back to Chicago after he left to find something better since he had nothing really to live for there. He finds out that Stanislovas had died from getting drunk and falling asleep in the oil factory he worked at and got locked up overnight and while he was sleeping he got eaten by rats (242-243). In this book Upton Sinclair made it hard to be a character who
After Jurgis’s family makes it to America they try to find work and when they finally do it is for a packing company that has a good wage but a terrible job, Jurgis just goes with it no matter how bad it is because he is raising money for his family. There is hope looking …show more content…
In this novel many of the characters died, some in more tragic ways than others. This novel shows that when someone's time comes there is no way to win a fight with destiny no matter how unexpected it is. For example when Jurgis goes and witnesses Ona’s death, who to mention was his wife, who died because of having a premature child that most likely was not even Jurgis’s child (158). Then there was also the part where Jurgis goes out and gets a job to be able to feed his child Antanas who he finds out coming home one weekend that he died tragically by going outside to play around but then falls into the mud and drowned, so not only did Jurgis lose his wife but he also lost his child (175). Then there was when Jurgis returns back to Chicago after he left to find something better since he had nothing really to live for there. He finds out that Stanislovas had died from getting drunk and falling asleep in the oil factory he worked at and got locked up overnight and while he was sleeping he got eaten by rats (242-243). In this book Upton Sinclair made it hard to be a character who