Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York:
             The Jungle is a book about a Lithuanian immigrant named Jurgis, who moves to the United States to seek a better equipped life for him and his family. He and his family moved the Chicago, to a place known as "Packingtown", the center of Chicago's meat packing industry. It was very difficult to find a job, the hours are long and exhausting, the pay is depressing. They found and bought a house, soon to find out that it was a scheme, and money will be lost. Through the rest of the book, they family struggles to keep their lives together. Jurgis and the family work day in and day out, to keep themselves as healthy and strong as possible. Jurgis and the family face many struggles through their time in Packingtown. Their lives were filled with endless obstacles, discrimination, unfairness, greed, poverty, injustice, bravery, socialism and stubborn capitalists. Through the book, they fought desperately to stay on the right track, but when things got fierce they struggle tremendously. Injustice was experienced many times throughout this book by the Lithuanian family. Jobs were almost impossible to find unless you looked well, fit and strong. Jurgis was hired at Brown's meat packing plant , making 17 cents per hour. He shoveled blood and guts from the slaughtered cattle. They would put up 700+ people in a killing bed during the scorching summers, causing many of them to sickness and exhaustion. Jurgis might spend a full day at work and only be paid for two hours work. Jurgis realized that the big companies were rivalries running the worker ragged with the cruel "speeding up" process, then casting him aside when he became ill from the work, or weak and exhausted. It is a machine with no thought to the worker. Jurgis witnesses the "speeding up" process whereby the bosses forced a pace man to set a nearly impossible pace for the workers on the line, leading to overtiredness, p...