CHAPTER 28
1. What explanation does Marija give for how women get caught up in prostitution?
2. Do Marija and the others blame Jurgis for leaving them? Does he think that he is to blame?
3. What are Jurgis’s apprehensions about going to see Elzbieta?
4. What are the main points of the speech that Jurgis attends? What parts of the speech arouse Jurgis’s interest?
1. What explanation does Marija give for how women get caught up in prostitution? The women are often foreigners who are sold falsely into prostitution having been told they would be doing other types of work. Upon arrival they are told they owe the madams several hundred dollars and are immediately indebted never being able to “work off” what they owe. Their clothes are often taken from them and they are threatened they will be arrested if they do not do as they are told. The women are either sold directly into prostitution or are easy targets in Packingtown because their other option is to starve.
ReplyDelete2. Do Marija and the others blame Jurgis for leaving them? Does he think that he is to blame? Marija does not blame Jurgis for leaving them, it did not surprise her and she doesn’t find him at fault for it. Jurgis however feels that he is to blame for the plight of the family because he was unable to adequately provide for them, not just in the end but at the beginning of immigrating to the United States as well.
3. What are Jurgis’s apprehensions about going to see Elzbieta? He is afraid she will “scold” him for having run off and leave she and Marija to fend for themselves. He is afraid she will hold him accountable for his actions as well as having his flood of emotions roused by the presence of the family once again. She was his mother-in-law and he feels he disgraced her family and himself, he wanted to make sure he had secured employment and something to offer versus approaching her empty handed.
1. What explanation does Marija give for how women get caught up in prostitution?
ReplyDeleteMany of the girls at the brothel start working there against their will. Marija tells a horrible story of a French woman who was put in a room alone, giving drugs, and then raped while she was passed out. That is how she became a prostitute. There is a huge profit if girls are brought in and exchanged for sexual slavery at the brothels. The women are tricked into the business. Jurgis believed that some of the women say they like being prostitutes. Most of the prostitutes, Marija tells Jurgis, are addicted to something. She explains that women are kidnapped and forced into the work and that they cannot leave because the madam keeps them in debt and addicted to drugs.
2. Do Marija and the others blame Jurgis for leaving them? Does he think that he is to blame?
ReplyDeleteThe others don't exactly say they blame him, they seem like they understand. I do think that Jurgis blames himself, thinking that had he stayed the others wouyldn't have had such a hard time. He sees himself as weak compaired to how they have been staying and confronting the hard ships instead of running away like he did.
1. girls are kiddnapped and kept on drugs and in debt to keep them under control. The sad thing is that this happens all the time all over the world.
ReplyDeletegive an answer for #four
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ReplyDeleteThe speaker talks about the corruption of the capitalist against the common worker. Jurgis just believes he has finally found a political party he belongs too