Nereida Lopez-Gollas
History 17B Fall 2014
Tuesday September 30, 2014
Essay on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Have you ever wonder how our country was in the early twentieth century before, with its hierarchies and social rules? The novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, is based and expresses the factories and day to day details of the wage of laborers life and the attack of capitalism. The Jungle starts off with the marriage of Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite, who just arrived to Packingtown from Lithuania. Packingtown is known as Chicago’s meat-packing district. The couple along with their family came to the United States looking for job opportunities and the American dream of being successful, but little did they know that working conditions were hard and dangerous. Jurgis along with Marija Berczynskas, Ona’s cousin and Jonas, Ona’s step mother Teta Elzbieta’s brother, go out in search for a job. Jurgis quickly finds a job, at a stockyard packed with cattle, pigs, and sheep that are slaughtered. He will be sweeping the insides of these slaughtered …show more content…
Marija is fired when she protest she had been cheated out of her pay for three hundred cans. (Sinclair, 109) Marija lost her job during a really bad time because Ona is pregnant and the family is going through financial problems. For four weeks Marija was looking for a job, half way down the fifth week she stopped paying her dues to the union, and she got a job as a “beef-trimmer.” “She got this because the boss saw that she had muscles of a man, and so he discharged a man and put Marija to do his work, paying her a little more than half he had been paying before.” (Sinclair, 111) After a week of giving birth, Ona went back to work and so she gave herself some one of thousand ailments that women group under the title of “womb trouble”. (Sinclair, 115) Ona damaged her health and refuses to go to the doctor due to not having
History 17B Fall 2014
Tuesday September 30, 2014
Essay on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Have you ever wonder how our country was in the early twentieth century before, with its hierarchies and social rules? The novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, is based and expresses the factories and day to day details of the wage of laborers life and the attack of capitalism. The Jungle starts off with the marriage of Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite, who just arrived to Packingtown from Lithuania. Packingtown is known as Chicago’s meat-packing district. The couple along with their family came to the United States looking for job opportunities and the American dream of being successful, but little did they know that working conditions were hard and dangerous. Jurgis along with Marija Berczynskas, Ona’s cousin and Jonas, Ona’s step mother Teta Elzbieta’s brother, go out in search for a job. Jurgis quickly finds a job, at a stockyard packed with cattle, pigs, and sheep that are slaughtered. He will be sweeping the insides of these slaughtered …show more content…
Marija is fired when she protest she had been cheated out of her pay for three hundred cans. (Sinclair, 109) Marija lost her job during a really bad time because Ona is pregnant and the family is going through financial problems. For four weeks Marija was looking for a job, half way down the fifth week she stopped paying her dues to the union, and she got a job as a “beef-trimmer.” “She got this because the boss saw that she had muscles of a man, and so he discharged a man and put Marija to do his work, paying her a little more than half he had been paying before.” (Sinclair, 111) After a week of giving birth, Ona went back to work and so she gave herself some one of thousand ailments that women group under the title of “womb trouble”. (Sinclair, 115) Ona damaged her health and refuses to go to the doctor due to not having