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, Chapter 1 Young man J urgis Rudkus and young woman Ona Lukoszaite immigrated to Chicago from Lithuania. In Chicago, they held their wedding feast in bar in the area where their relative had recently moved called Packingtown. There, they and their relatives had come to search for a better life but Packingtown, The center of Chicago's meatpacking industry, was dangerous and filthy and to top it off, it was difficult to find a job there. After having their reception they are more than a hundred dollars in debt to the saloon keeper (In Lithuania, the wedded usually left money to pay but in America some just left without paying). Jurgis works harder to earn more money and keeps his faith in the American Dream.

Predictions: In my opinion I think that Jurgis and his family will have a lot of trouble finding ,money and jobs and a place to stay.

Chapter 2 Jurgis and his family are sent to a dilapidated boarding house by the person who inspired them to come to America. The man was once rich but now suffer from financial issues. Jurgis and his family are caught in many frauds and cons along the way to America and once they are there.

Predictions: I think that he and his family are not in the deep trouble that will soon come to them in the new, dreary country they have moved to.

Chapter 3 Jurgis and his family take a tour of the city. The bustling people fills them with wonder, but the cages of animals to be slaughtered crushed a bit of their optimism. The animals where maltreated until they where slaughtered and the government official who comes by to check for tuberculosis often does not check a few carcasses which have tuberculosis. Those are packaged in secret and shipped off anyway, so not to waste a good profit.

Predictions: I think the way they make and package the meat is gross. Also, I think that someone in the family will die because of what the government official overlooked.

Chapter 4 Jurgis gets a job sweeping the guts and insides of the slaughters animals into a trap door. The stench is awful but he is filled with joy and hope because he was payed two dollars for twelve hours work. The family searches for a house to stay in and find one which was advertised as large but in actuality was not. When they closed the deal the found out it was 'rental' until the house payment was made.

Predictions: I think that Jurg is will keep his job for a long while and the rest of his large family will find a nice hose and some jobs but will lose it all to con artists.

Chapter 5 Jurgis works happily at his job while Marija, Jonas and Antanas all get jobs. Marija finds out she got her job at the cost of a 15 year old girl, Jonas learns he got his due to the death of the worker before him due to unsafe workplaces and Antanas get his by agreeing to pay the person who got him the job one third of his wage. But, they all got jobs and helped get money.

Predictions: I think they will all get fired because of a strike and they will have to move back to their country.

Chapter 6 Grandmother Majauszkiene their wise old neighbor, tells the family that their house is a swindle. They learn from her that she owns her house because she was able to pay her monthly dues which most people could not and one missed payment led to eviction. The monthly cost and interest on the house caused the rent to be more than twenty dollars a month. Ona gets a job sewing covered on hams by paying the fore-lady ten dollars and Stanislovas lies about how old he is and gets a job canning lard.

Predictions: I think that because he is so young, Stanislovas will die from so freak accident in the factory and the entire family will be devastated.

Chapter 7 The family is over one hundred dollars in debt for hose payment and illness strikes the members but none can afford a day off to recover. Winter in Packingtown is harsh and Jurgis is risking his life going to work at his dim lit, cold slaughterhouse job. Antanas dies because of cold harsh conditions and illness.

Predictions: I KNEW someone was going to die. I was right. Ha. But I still think the family will end up moving back to their country.

Chapter 8 Marija is courted by the violinist, Tamozius. He takes her and sometime the family to events where he plays and that gives the famioly some joy but they never marry due to lack of money to have a wedding. Jurgis joins a union because Marija's factory shuts down and she loses her job and he fears for the conditions of his family.

Predictions: Aww so cute, the little romance. I think Marija will get work again and her husband will leave her.

Chapter 9 Jurgis attends socialist meetings and resolves to learn English to improve his luck. One of his fellow coworkers tells him to become a citizen and he does. then the man takes Jurgis to vote and tells him who to vote for. It was only until later his socialist friends explain he has been duped into a vote getting scheme.

Predictions: Jurgis is beginning to form beliefs he will not be able to stand up for. In my opinion it was his own fault and he should be more careful next time. I don't really have anything to predict so I say he will lose his job.

Chapter 10 Jurgis finally mans up and demands to know all of the hidden costs of his home. The man says they must pay seven dollars a year for insurance, ten dollars a year in taxes, and six dollars a year for water. He adds that if the city chooses to install a sewer and a sidewalk, they would have to pay between thirty-seven and forty-seven dollars. Marija gets and loses her job again because she was complaining of unfair treatment. It takes a month for her to find a job as a beef trimmer, at half the salary of a man. Ona gets pregnant and her job becomes more difficult. She bears a healthy boy (whom she names after Jurgis' late father) then is forced to return to her job only 7 days later.Her boss hates her because she is an honest married woman and would not join her prostitute brothel.

Predictions: Well, good for you Jurgis. You are a man after all. And congratulations on the boy. Nice name. I think that the little boy will grow ujp to work in a factory and die from a factory accident.

Chapter 11 The workers in the city work faster only to have their wages cut numerous times.There was a run at the bank so Marija withdraws her money and sews it into her clothes and it weighs her down and she fears sinking into the mud.

Predictions: I think that the workers can work as heard as they want and they are still going to get salary cuts. There is no other way. Then they will strike.

Chapter 12

When Jurgis sprains his ankle he spends 3 months in bed unable to work and often vents his anger on his family. The only way to subdue him would be to give him his baby son. Stanislovas gets frostbite and Jurgis often has to beat him to get him to go to work on cold snowy mornings. Jonas abandons his family because he can no longer take the misery. They have to sent Nikalojus and Vilimas, Teta Elzbieta’s ten- and eleven-year-old sons, to work as newsboys to get money.

Predictions: Haha that's what you get for not being careful, you klutz. Now your family is starving. Good job. That was sarcasm. Just letting you know. I think that his wife will leave his sorry angry butt. And take her son with her.

Chapter 13

Kristoforas, the youngest son of Teta Elzbieta, dies of food poisoning. Then Jurgis heals but the factory refuses him his job back. He finds the job at the fertilizer factory, the worst place to work, after a long frustrating job search. Teta gets a job in a sausage factory and the job wears on her health.

Predictions: I was right again about people dying. Man, I am good. Right, Mr. Morrison? Well I think that not only will another person die but that person will be Teta because of her new job.

Chapter 14 The family now know all of the dirty secrets of the industry. Antanas gets sick with the various sicknesses that children get. He starts to take up alcohol as a numbing agent. Ona becomes pregnant again.

Predictions: I think that Ona will have a baby girl and they will have too many mouths feed and someone will leave.

Chapter 15 Twice Ona does not come home at night and she tells a lie to cover it up. Furious, Jurgis wrangles her for a confession and Ona tells him, sobbing. Ona's boss, Phil Connor, forced her to stay after work and sleep with him for the past two months. Jurgis becomes enraged and attacks and beats up Phil.

Predictions: Smooth move Ona. Phil is a jack butt. A evil corrupted jack butt. He should not have done that. I think the obvious happens next: Jurgis is arrested.

Chapter 16 At the police station Jurgis is arrested. He is made to walk nude in front of all the inmates while they leered at him. He realizes it it Christmas eve and laments and misses his family, remembering what they did last year.

Predictions: Correct. Again. Go me. That's really embarrassing for Jurgis. But the Phil guy deserved it and Jurgis did not. I think that he will get harassed more in jail.

Chapter 17  Jurgis becomes friends with his cellmate Jack Duane. He gives Jurgis his mistress' address if Jurgis ever needed advice. His trial was unfair and he was sent to jail for a month. He pleas for the sake of his family but the judge does not budge. Stanislovas visits him in jail to tell him that he, Ona, Marija, and Teta Elzbieta have all lost their jobs and they can't but food or pay rent. All he can pay them is fourteen cents. Stanislovas also reports that Marija is suffering from blood poisoning due to a cut she received at work and Ona lays in bed all day crying. He says that Kotrina, Stanislovas, and the children earn money selling papers. They can only get money from begging. He says that Phil Connor is scheming to prevent them from getting jobs.

Predictions: Well, that came back to bit him. He had better get a job quick. I think that He will leave his family.

Chapter 18 Jurgis does not have the money to pay for his trial and has to stay in jail for an extra three days. He walks twenty miles home to find that his family was evicted and a new one moved in. He goes to the boardinghouse where they first stayed and hears Ona screaming when he gets there hew tears through the building to have Marija tell him that she has gone into premature labor.

Predictions: I think she and the baby will die.

Chapter 19 Jurgis gathers one twenty-five from people in the housed and runs to get help. The midwife asks for twenty-five dollars but finally accepts what he has and goes top help Ona. They do not let Jurgis in the room because he would be in the way. He goes out to the bar he frequented and the bartender gave him food, drink and a bed to sleep on. At four in the morning he goes hjomew to find the midwife covered in blood. She tells him the baby is dead and Ona is dying. Kotrina gets home and Jurgis takes tree dollars from her and goes out and gets drunk.

Predictions: I am awesome at this. So right. I think he is going to leave the family and take Antanas with him.

Chapter 20  Teta Elzbieta convinces Jurgis to search for a job because of his son but he discovers Connors had him blacklisted and he could not get a job. Marija's hand was almost healed enough to go back to work and Teta had a lead on a floor scrubbing job. For two weeks he searches for jobs until an old acquaintance gets him at a harvesting machine making job where the conditions are better and the pay is good. But soon his whole section is told they where being laid off until further notice.

Predictions: Good job Teta. Taking charge. Woman Power. He needs to get up off his lazy butt and work I think that he won't be able to find a job.

Chapter 21 The children's pay are the only thing keeping them fed while Jurgis looks for another job for ten days. Juozapas, Teta Elzbieta’s crippled child, goes searching for food in a dump. A kind rich philanthropist found him there and asked about his life. Appalled by his wretched life he goes back with him to the boarding house. After seeing the dump they live in she decides to get Jurgis a job. She is engaged to be married to a superintendent at a steel mill, so she writes a letter of recommendation for Jurgis. Jurgis takes the letter to the superintendent and gets himself hired. The mill is too far away to come home during the week so he comes home on the weekends. One weekend he comes home to find that his beloved son had died in a freak accident and drowned in the mud in the street. He is utterly devastated.

Predictions: Wow. Shocker. Not. I DEFINITELY think he is going to go berserk and leave the family.

Chapter 22 Jurgis looks at his son's body once and walks out without a word. He trudges to a train station and hides in a car until he reaches the country, fighting emotion and despair the whole way. Jurgis walks to a farm and tries to buy food from him, but the rude farmer refused to feed a 'tramp' so Jurgis walks away ripping up a hundred peach tree saplings in fury. He meets another farmer who offers him a job but Jurgis turns him down because the job would not last through the winter. He earns a few meals from odd jobs and steals and forages when hes not working for any farmers. He eventually stops asking for shelter from farmers because so many are hostile, and he becomes self reliant. He earns what he would have considered a fortune in the city and spends it all on drinks and women in one night, leaving him guilt ridden.

Predictions: Wow this book is long. I think that he will keep doing what he is doing and waste away and die. I hope he does.

Chapter 23 Jurgis returns to Chicago in the winter and finds a job digging underground tunnels for railway freight. HE is confident this job will last and spends money on alcohol without care. He then suffers an broken arm from an accident and had to spend Christmas in the hospital. After two weeks he is kicked out and had to attend a church revival just to stay warm.

Predictions: Wow, going to church just to get warm? Eh that's more effort that half of the Americans these days put into religion. Huh. Just a hunch but I think he is going to run into his family again and there is going to be some trouble.

Chapter 24 Work becomes scarcer and Jurgis must fight to get warm placeses and spots at the saloon with other bums. One day he stumbles upon a very drunk Freddie Jones who invited him to his mansion and gave him a $100 bill for the cab ride (keep the change for himself). Once there Freddie gives him a large feast but once Freddie falls asleep, the butler kicks him out.

Predictions: My lord it is so long. But lucky break dude. Don't do anything rash with that money... I think he is going to get mugged.

Chapter 25 Jurgis realizes he can't get change for the bill without getting robbed but he goes into a saloon anyway. The bartender says he must buy a beer to break the bill and Jurgis agrees on a five cent beer, but the tender gives him only 95 cents in change. Jurgis is outraged and attacks the man. The police do not believe his story and he is sentenced to ten days i n jail plus costs. He meets up with Jack Duane again and agrees to see the criminal when he gets out of jail. When he gets out he visits Jack at his pawn shop and agrees to join Jack in His life of crime.He goes on his first mugging and makes $55. He learns to not care about what happens to his victims and becomes connected to the Chicago criminal underground. Dueane gets sold out by his fellow criminals and flees to the country. For money Jurgis gets a job working for a sleazy politician and received a job so that he could make immigrants vote for the politician's party, just as he had when he had first arrived. HE got a job as a hog trimmer for which he receives regular pay in addition to the fruits of political graft. He worked tirelessly and then when the election time came he brought in streams of immigrant voters and got $300 richer (which he spent on alcohol) when his party won the election.

Predictions: And there is the rashness. Good going. You are lucky you weren't mugged. you would have died. IO think he wil find his family or spend the money drinking.

Chapter 26 The packers and the unions got into a huge fight and Scully denounces the packers in the paper so Jurgis asks for another job and gets one for a three dollar wage as a scab. He is offered the job as the boss on the killing beds. He revives higher wages and the promise that he will have the job after the strike. Some strike events lead to Jurgis running into Phil Connors in Packingtown. He attacks him again and tries to use Scully to get out of jail but finds out Connors is a favorite of Scully. All he can do is lower Jurgis' bail so that he can pay it and told him to skip town. Jurgis pays the bail and goes to the other end of Chicago wit only $4 left in his pocket.

Predictions: Jail time again? Jeez. At least you have money unlike your family. By the way I think you are going to go see them...

Chapter 27 Jurgis is begging for jobs, which are scarce again because it is the end of the strike. He gets a job only to get fired again because he is to weak from his new living conditions (being poor again) to work. He watches as the graft begins and he cannot take part in it. While arguing over the cost of rwent at a place he meetss an old aquatiance. She tells him where he can find Marija. He goes and it is stormed by the police because it is a brother. They talk for a bit before the police take them to the station. She adds that, Stanislovas died because he fell asleep in the storeroom of an oil factory and a swarm of rats attacked him and killed him.

Predictions: More death. This is a sad book. But I think he is going to make her quit her 'job'.

Chapter 28 The madam of the brothel pays Marija’s fine and the prostitutes are set free. The judge lets Jurgis go without penalty because Jurgis says that he had gone merely to visit his sister. Marija gives Jurgis Teta Elzbieta’s address and urges him to stay with her and her remaining children. Jurgis doesn’t want to see her until he gets a job because he feels guilty for leaving them after Antanas died. Jurgis spends the rest of the day looking for work. He eats dinner and, while walking the streets, chances upon a political meeting. He enters the hall to sit and rest while he ponders how Teta Elzbieta will receive him.Jurgis listens to the speech; he has wandered into a socialist political meeting. The speaker details the miserable conditions of life for the common worker. He points out the corrupt practices of big capitalists to grind common laborers into submission. Jurgis finds the expression of all of his misery in the man’s speech. He is inspired and wants to become a socialist.

Predictions: No such luck eh? Well become a socialist if you want. But I just Know you won't live up to their standards. I think you will actually get a job.

Chapter 29 After the meeting ends, Jurgis finds the speaker resting amid a crowd of people. He asks for more information about the party, and the speaker directs him to Ostrinski, a socialist who speaks Lithuanian. Ostrinski takes Jurgis to his home. They share their experiences in scraping out a miserable existence.Ostrinski explains that there are two economic classes: the small, privileged capitalist class and the large, impoverished proletariat. Because the capitalists are few in number, they can easily work together in favor of their own interests. The proletariat, on the other hand, is large and generally ignorant. Ostrinski explains that workers need to gain “class consciousness” so that they can organize in favor of their interests.Although America claims to be the land of the free, Ostrinski explains that political freedom doesn’t alleviate the grinding misery of wage slavery. He adds that socialism is necessarily a worldwide movement: any one nation that achieves success will be crushed by the others around it.

Predictions: I think this is almost the end. Yay. I think he is going to help the socialist cause even more.

Chapter 30 Jurgis visits Teta Elzbieta to tell her about socialism. She is happy to hear that he wishes to work and help support the family. She even agrees to attend socialist political meetings with him from time to time. Jurgis finds a job as a porter in a small hotel that pays thirty dollars a month plus board. Ostrinski informs Jurgis that his new boss, Tommy Hinds, is actually a state organizer for the socialist party and a well-known socialist speaker. Hinds is overjoyed to find that Jurgis is a comrade. Hinds often urges Jurgis to detail the horrendous filth of the meat-packing plants along with the real recipes for tinned meats and sausages.Jurgis takes up the socialist cause with a passion. He becomes angry and frustrated when he cannot sway people to socialism.

Predictions: One more to go. I knew he would. I think he will finally get a good job and live a semi-happy rest of his life.

Chapter 31 Jurgis attempts to persuade Marija to leave prostitution, but she explains that she cannot because she is addicted to morphine. She plans to remain a prostitute for the rest of her life. J urgis attends a meeting with a magazine editor who opposes socialism but has agreed to listen to some proponents of the movement. Jurgis’s role is to detail the unsanitary conditions under which meat is packed and sold to the public. A spirited speaker at a political meeting urges socialists to continue fighting because the victory is not yet won, encouraging them with the words, “Chicago will be ours!”

Predictions: LAST ONE!!! In my opinion this book was really long. But not as bad as Les Mis. Humph. But I think they wil finally succeed the socialist cause.