1. Describe the circumstances surrounding the death of Kristoforas.
2. What are the working conditions in the fertilizer plant?
3. Why did the family decide that the boys should return to school?
4. Why did Elzbieta go to work, and what was her job?
5. This chapter begins the book’s comparison of Packingtown to a jungle. Describe the metaphor at the end of the chapter.
4. Why did Elzbieta go to work, and what was her job?
ReplyDeleteThey decided that they needed more money since Jurgis was laid up for months and needed more moeny to pay the bills. SHe had a daughter old enough to stay at home and do all the cleaning and cooking and taking care of the real young ones so there was no reason for Elizbieta to stay at home anymore. When she went to find a job, all she could find was making smoked sausages, which is ironic because it seems that's all they ate anyway.
1. Describe the circumstances surrounding the death of Kristoforas.
DeleteI find it very sad that no one other than the mother seems particularly upset about this death. Also, the mother still clings to the Old World "He Must have a Good burial," like with the wedding feast.
From BEth: Chapter 13
DeleteDescribe the circumstances surrounding Kristoforas? He was born a cripple and with the improper nutrition the city has to offer he slowly withered away never growing to look more than a year old and the drafts on the floor caused him to cough. The family suspects the sausage he ate just an hour before he died.
2. What are the working conditions in the fertilizer plant?
ReplyDeleteThey had waste parts and product. There was no daylight and the workers were breathing into their lungs the fine dust, and were doomed to die. Jurgis’ job was to shovel fertilizer into carts. Most of his days he was covered in animal byproducts and he could barely stand by the end of the day. He gotten so sick that he staggered home and he does not even notice how much the smell of his body is bothering all the people around him. At the dinner table, the smell of him makes his family vomit. He keeps going back to the fertilizer plant and the symptoms of the plant do not go away.
3. Why did the family decide that the boys should return to school?
Vilimas and Nikalojus picked up bad habits in their paperboy jobs. The boys were speaking English slang, and they were to get to know the Chicago's criminal underworld. The family decided that the two boys will go back to school in fall.
just when you think there can't possibly be anything NASTIER than the meat packing plant--they come up with something grosser. Do you think the fertilizer plant is the worst of the worst? Or is there even something lower??
Delete5. The men were wild animals; it was all a competition to survive. They were always on the hunt to find jobs and hope other workers did not replace them.
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