The Jungle Characters
Who is Upton Sinclair?
What is An American writer, Muckraker, Political Activist, and Socialist
Who are the people who feel capitalism the most?
What is immigrants
What is the city where Packing town takes place?
What is Chicago
What is jurgis wanting for his family?
What is the Primary conflict of the novel?
Jurgis and his family striving against the forces of capitalism
Who is Jurgis Rudkus?
What is a Lithuanian who immigrated to the U.S and struggles to support his family.
What is the definition of capitalism?
What is the investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained by private individuals or corporations
What is what you do in Packing town?
What is the meat packing industry
How does jurgis plan to get a house for his famil?
To get a good paying job
What is Phil Connor's rape of ona?
This event creates the circumstances that allow jurgis to be arrested, which creates further conflict.
Who is Ona Rudkus?
Who is Jurgis teenage wife
What do politician's do with immigrants to get their votes?
What is Buying votes
Who is the boss of Ona who rapes her and gets the entire family fired?
What is Phil Connor
What did jurgis think he would get living in the united states?
Freedom
What is the Death of Baby Antanas?
This event, the moment of the highest tension in the story, marks jurgis loss of hope
Who is Antanas Rudkus?
What is Ona and Jurgis Son?
What is the meaning of capitalism in the book?
What is total evil of greed, child labor, diseased meat to unsuspecting public
What does it mean to work in Packing town?
What are Slaughterhouses, sickness and deaths, constant replacement of new immigrants for the ones who have been worn down by the tireless work.
What happens to the American dream for jurgis?
Poverty
Following the story's climax, jurgis does this, which in turn causes marija to turn to drugs and prostitution to survive
Abandon his family
Who is Phil Connor?
What is Onas Boss
What is the cure for the capitalism and problems with society during this time period
What is the outcome of the meat industry?
What is the Pure food and Drug act of 1906
The novel lacks this, the part of a novel that often provides a kind of wrap-of, leaving the reader with a sense of completion
The resolution