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Jungle Essay, Research Paper

The family knows all the dirty secrets of the meat-packing industry. The most

spoiled of meats becomes sausage. All manner of dishonesty exists in the selling

diseased, rotten, and adulterated meat to American households. The working

members of the family fall into a silent stupor due to the grinding poverty and

misery of their lives. Ona and Jurgis grow apart. Jurgis begins to drink

heavily. He delivers himself from full-blown alcoholism through force of will,

but the desire to drink always torments him. Antanas suffers all manner of

childhood illnesses, but the measles attacks him with fury. However, he reaches

his first birthday owing to his strong constitution despite the privations under

which his family suffers. He is perpetually malnourished like the rest of

Packingtown. Ona, pregnant again, develops a bad cough and suffers increasingly

frequent bouts of hysterical crying. Winter arrives again, and with it comes the

grueling rush season. Fifteen and sixteen hour workdays are frequent. Twice, Ona

does not return home at night. She explains that the snow drifts kept her away,

so she stayed with a friend. Jurgis discovers that she lied about staying with

her friend. He wrangles a confession out of her. Sobbing hysterically, Ona

confesses that, Connor, a boss at her factory continually harassed her and

pleaded with her to become his mistress. Eventually, he raped her in the factory

after everyone had gone home. He threatened to arrange the firings of every wage

earner in her household. Moreover, he threatened to prevent them from obtaining

work in Packingtown ever again. With these threats, he forced her into

accompanying him to Miss Henderson’s brothel in the evenings for the past two

months. The recent snowstorms prevented Ona from returning home twice. Jurgis

storms to Ona’s workplace. It takes more than a half dozen men subdue him before

he can choke the life out of Connor. Jurgis is arrested and taken to jail where

old men and boys, hardened criminals and petty criminals, innocent men and

guilty men share the same squalid quarters. Jurgis’s trial date is set, and his

bond is three hundred dollars. Jurgis spends the Christmas holidays in jail,

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