Characters & Plot
Which character is consumed by alcoholism in chapter 14 of The Jungle?
Jurgis
Based on the text, what is the meaning of prodigy? "He was quite able to bear his sufferings—it was as if he had all these complaints to show what a prodigy of health he was."
a. a young person with exceptional abilities
b. a sneaky individual
c. an annoyance; a burden
a. a young person with exceptional abilities
What is the term for giving human characteristics to non-human objects?
Personificaiton
Which rhetorical appeal is used in this excerpt?
"With what had been told to them by Jonas, who had worked in the pickle rooms, they could now study the whole of the spoiled-meat industry on the inside..."
Ethos; Jonas is a credible source on what happens in the pickle rooms
The Jungle is a fictional story about an immigrant family from what country?
Which character had her personality changed by the brutal meatpacking industry? She used to "sing like a bird" but is now silenced.
Ona
Based on the text, what is the definition of stupefying? "It was stupefying, brutalizing work; it left her no time to think, no strength for anything."
a. a state of unconciousness
b. a state of physical or mental inactivity
c. unable to think or feel properly
c. unable to think or feel properly
What is this excerpt an example of?
"It was as if their hopes were buried in separate graves"
Personification; hopes cannot be buried in graves like humans can
Which rhetorical appeal is used in this excerpt?
"Ona, too, was falling into a habit of silence—Ona, who had once gone about singing like a bird. She was sick and miserable, and often she would barely have strength enough to drag herself home."
Pathos; appeals to the reader's emotions of sadness and pity
What genre is The Jungle?
Political fiction
Who took care of little Antanas when the family could not?
Based on the text, what is the definition of anguish? "They could not even cry out beneath it; but anguish would seize them, more dreadful than the agony of death."
a. annoyance
b. grief
c. severe suffering
c. severe suffering
Which rhetorical appeal is used in this excerpt?
"He had had all the diseases that babies are heir to, in quick succession, scarlet fever, mumps, and whooping cough in the first year, and now he was down with the measles. There was no one to at tend him but Kotrina; there was no doctor to help him, because they were too poor..."
Pathos; appeals to sadness and pity
The following excerpt uses ETHOS. Explain why.
"With one-member trimming beef in a cannery, and another working in a sausage factory, the family had a first-hand knowledge of the great majority of Packingtown swindles."
Each of the family members worked in the meatpacking plant, which gave them firsthand experience. They were a credible source of information on the brutal industry.
______________ (1896-1916) was an era of widespread social activism and political reform across the US.
The Progressive Era
What is this excerpt describing?
"He was working in the steaming pit of hell; day after day, week after week— until now, there was not an organ of his body that did its work without pain, until the sound of ocean breakers echoed in his head day and night, and the buildings swayed and danced before him as he went down the street."
This is describing the effects of the brutal work on Jurgis. He is an alcoholic and is getting drunk.
Based on the text, what is the definition of deliverance? "And from all the unending horror of this there was a respite, a deliverance—he could drink!"
a. not often; rarely
b. the action of being rescued or set free
c. open resistance, bold disobedience
b. the action of being rescued or set free
The following excerpt uses PATHOS. Explain why, and what emotion this appeals to.
"And there they would eat what they had to eat, and afterward, because there was only their misery to talk of, they would crawl into bed and fall into a stupor and never stir until it was time to get up again, and dress by candlelight, and go back to the machines."
This excerpt describes the awful condition the workers were in after a long day at the factory. It uses pathos and appeals to the reader's emotions of sadness and pity.
The following excerpt uses PATHOS. Explain why, and the emotion this appeals to.
"Steeped in misery and despair as he was, merely to walk down the street was to be put upon the rack."
This excerpt describes Jurgis' suffering as a result of his job and his alcoholism. This is pathos and appeals to the reader's emotions of sadness and pity.
Which group of people were reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers who exposed corruption?
Muckrakers
How many children does Elzbeita have?
Six children
Based on the text, what is the definition of stupor? "...and afterward, because there was only their misery to talk of, they would crawl into bed and fall into a stupor and never stir until it was time to get up again..."
a. a long nap without interruption
b. a state of near unconsciousness
c. a state of drunkenness
b. a state of near unconsciousness
The following excerpt uses ETHOS. Explain why.
"Elzbieta would explain to him that it could not be helped, that a woman was subject to such things when she was pregnant; but he was hardly to be persuaded and would beg and plead to know what had happened."
The following excerpt uses PATHOS. Explain why, and what emotion this appeals to.
"There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs. There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it."
This excerpt describes the disgusting conditions in which the meat was kept. This uses pathos and appeals to the reader's emotion of disgust.
Name one of the laws passed as a result of The Jungle's publication.
1. Meat Inspection Act (1906)
2. Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)