The Jungle1
In the "Gilded Age" immigrants from all over the world became part of America's working nation in hopes of finding a new and better life for themselves and their families. As more and more new families moved to America with high hopes, more and more people fell victims to the organized society, politics, and institutions better described as, the system. The system was like a jungle, implying that only the strong survived and the weak perished. Bosses always picked the biggest and strongest from a throng of people desperate for work, and if you were big and strong, you were more likely to get the job then if you were small and weak. Packing town was also a Jungle in the sense that the people with more authority or political power acted as predators and preyed on the working people, taking their money unfairly because of the their lack of knowledge on the pitfalls of the New World and their inability to speak and understand the universal language adequately. The unjust and corrupt system kept workers from speaking out when they felt they had been wronged and punished them when they did. As a result of the system, men women and even children were overworked, underpaid and taken advantage of. Working immigran
The extra time that Ona had to spend outside of work due to the prostitution ring and her boss had kept her coming home once in awhile and this worried Jurgis. As a result of Ona's truancy in coming home, Jurgis found out that Ona had slept with her boss. The enraged Jurgis then set out to kill the boss that had taken advantage of his wife, but only succeeding in falling victim to the system once again, for Jurgis was put into jail for attacking Ona's boss. The boss had been wrong to take advantage of Ona, which caused Jurgis to act against the system and nearly kill Ona's boss. While they were both wrong, Jurgis is the only one being punished due to the unfair ways of the system. As punishment, Jurgis did time in prison and was blacklisted, which meant that he could never get a job in the stockyards again. ts weren't any better off in American then they were in their homeland, as they soon discovered. Dreams that any people had of America were washed away by the corrupt ways of the system. In the book The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, the Rudkus family continually found themselves prey to the system. After Ona found a job, to keep it, she was expected to do things that she didn't want to, such as earning money in a prostitution ring for her "forelady". Ona, being a faithful wife, didn't want any part in the prostitution chain and was reluctant to be a part of it, but a job was no easy thing to find or keep in Packingtown. So Ona joined the chain, for her family's sake. As if being a prostitute on her spare time for her "forelady"
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Packingtown Ona, Gilded Age, Sinclair Rudkus, rudkus family, corrupt system, system okay, prey system, hidden costs, result system, system kept, boss wrong, coming home, prostitution ring,
Approximate Word count = 1046
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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