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Jurgis spends thirty-three days in jail for his attack. Sinclair clearly means
to charge capitalism with perverting the American justice system. The judge
cares little that his ruling means the difference between starvation and
security, albeit precarious, for an entire family. Sinclair also charges
capitalism with being anti- Christian. Christianity was and still is a strong
social force in American culture. Jurgis spends the Christmas holidays separated
from his family. Moreover, his time in jail leads to their eviction from their
home. Sinclair means to portray capitalism as a threat to fundamental American
values again. The family suffers a slew of misfortunes following Jurgis’s
imprisonment. This clearly marks the family’s inevitable descent into run.
Despite all of their best efforts to provide greater opportunities to the next
generation, no sacrifice by the older one is enough. The odds are stacked too
high against them. All of the able- bodied children have to work after Jurgis’s
imprisonment. Even that provides them with barely enough income to survive.
Marija has suffered an injury that may eventually require the amputation of her
hand. Stanislovas’s hands are already damaged by frostbite. Everywhere in
Packingtown, there are wage laborers who suffer from some form of permanent
disfigurement directly and indirectly related to their work. In a sense, the
prevalence of these disfiguring injuries is a metaphor for butchery of human
bodies. Human beings are butchered in the service of profit-making as well as
the animals. Hard work, family values, self-reliance, and self- motivated action
do absolutely nothing to provide the means for social advancement. The wage
laborers that populate The Jungle are moved inevitably towards ruin and abuse by
forces beyond their control. Capitalism is a forces as inevitable and careless
as nature. It picks off unfortunate individuals as carelessly as cold weather,
disease, and heat exhaustion.