The Jungle- Chapters 21-23

Chapter 21:

Now only the children are working, and that's what's keeping the family from starvation. Jurgis spends ten days to look for a job. Juozapas (Teta's crippled child) goes to a dumpster one day and starts to look for food. A rich woman walks past the dumpster and finds him there and asks what he's doing and about his life. After hearing what they've been through, she decides to follow him to their boarding house. For me personally I would be nervous in both cases. The reason why is because you don't you want to be embarrassed because of how you have to live, and the other reason why is because, you don't know how these people are living. After what the woman finds, she was devastated and told Jurgis that she is engaged to a superintendent at a steel mill, and will write him a letter of recommendation to get a job. Jurgis goes to the mill and gets a job. Jurgis doesn't come during the week because the mill is to far way from the boarding house. He only comes home on the weekends. This is sad because he's missing his son and him growing up. Antana tries to speak for the first time, and that makes Jurgis really happy. One day Jurgis comes home from work to find out that his son and last family member alive has died, he drowned in the mud in the streets. This is even worse because he's lost his whole family, and it just shows how disgusting that time period.

Chapter 22:

Jurgis leaves the house after seeing Antana's dead body, he doesn't say anything to anybody. He runs to the nearest railway crossing and jumps into a car. Jurgis tries not to think about his pain and grief. Jurgis rides into the country. He loves the clean air and space. He washes his clothes in the nearest stream. He goes to a farmer to buy food, but the farmer won't sell him any because he doesn't sell food to tramps. He runs through that farmer's farm and grabs a whole bunch of peaches. Jurgis finds another farmer and gets a place to stay and food. Jurgis does a few odd jobs here and their and stealing and lying when he isn't. Jurgis finds a job and it pays more than he's ever had. He goes and spends it's on alcohol and women in onte night.

Chapter 23:

Jurgis returns to Chicago in the winter, because it's starting to get cold. He finds a job digging underground tunnels for a railway freight. He is confident that the job will last him all winter long, so he goes and blows his money on alcohol. When he's working he breaks his arm, and has to spend Christmas in the hopspital. After about two weeks in the hospital he is ushered out. This is sad because he throwen out on the streets after he breaks his arm and he has no money. The only way he is able to stay warm is to attend church. He is mad that they are preaching to him about saving his ould. He thinks that men only "decent exsistence for their bodies".