1. How are the police characterized?
2. What are Jurgis’s worries about the family’s present situation, and what does he consider to be the worst aspect of his
position?
3. Whom does Jurgis blame for Ona’s situation? What kind of person does Jurgis view Ona as? Is he correct in his assessment of her?
4. What does Jurgis believe will happen to Connor?
5. Describe Pat Callahan.
6. What is Jurgis’s court experience?
7. What is Jurgis feeling as he hears the church bells?
9. List the jungle metaphors in this chapter. Do they affect your opinion of Jurgis or other characters in the novel?
10. Explain the poem at the end of the chapter. How does it apply to Jurgis and others like him?
1. How are the police characterized?
ReplyDeleteThey are characterized as brutes. They are seen as heavy fisted and very prown to start as much trouble as they are suppost to end and easily payed off. They are very corroupt. They want to inflict pain on others and not have to get trouble back, like druging the prisioners yet described as pushing him and descriped as beating people up int he jail in groups.
#9 is a questions I would like you all to answer. It is more "Deep" than many of the surface questions we've been dealing with lately. Why is this book called "The Jungle"?
DeleteAnd the police work with the owners as part of this corrupt system. A poor man can't win if even the law (police and judges) are corrupt and against him and the union is helpless/worthless.
DeleteFrom beth: Chapter 16
DeleteDescribe Pat Callahan. He began his career in the meat industry and was said to be born for politics by holding many positions at a young age. He holds contempt for foreigners and he is said to gain respectability for his children are grown.
What is Jurgis’s feeling when he hears the Church Bells? At first he thinks something’s on fire and then he realizes that it is Christmas eve and he gets sad and begins to reminisce on the past by look at the down town areas with hungry eyes of the children.
2. What are Jurgis’s worries about the family’s present situation, and what does he consider to be the worst aspect of his position?
ReplyDeleteJurgis worries about Ona and the family. Jurgis begins to realize that what he has done will be bad for the family. Ona will lose her job and he is afraid they will lose the house. Jurgis is tortured by thoughts of the hardship his family will suffer with him in jail and unable to work. While in jail, Jurgis determines that society is his enemy. Jurgis is not naïve any more. He does not believe in the American dream. Jurgis wonders why that a prisoner in jail is warmer and better fed then he would be at home Jurgis becomes angry in jail because he believes he has been wronged by society and this is an injustice.
10. Explain the poem at the end of the chapter. How does it apply to Jurgis and others like him?
DeleteDo a little research. Who wrote this poem?? How is he similar/different than Upton Sinclair.
#9 is a questions I would like you all to answer. It is more "Deep" than many of the surface questions we've been dealing with lately. Why is this book called "The Jungle"?
ReplyDeleteThe book was called "The Jungle" because the meat packing industry was an example of the jungle. It is the survival of the fittest in the meat packing industry and the immigrants lives revolve around the filth and cruelty of the meat packing industry. Instead of focusing on the normal hardships of the immigrants, the book is an example of abuse to the immigrants, the example of survival of the fittest….The Jungle.
It is my contention that the book is called "The Jungle" because the area known as Packingtown was wild and crazed, it was ruled by tyranny and had no rules, no limitations, and no checks and balances. It was a jungle because it was dense, confusing, and dangerous on every level. A person can hardly keep alive in a real Jungle without provisions and knowledge, and that rang true for the vulnerable immigrants who were thrown into "The Jungle".
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