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The Jungle ch 6-10 - Coggle Diagram
The Jungle ch 6-10
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The family works all summer and, in fall, Ona and Jurgis get married.
And of course, after all the cleaning up after the veselija, they find that all of their new acquaintances have left them a hundred dollars in debt
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Jurgis can't stop noticing Ona, whom he thinks is too sensitive and good for this time of life.
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And none of them recognize that their food has unknown additives and preservatives that aren't good for them.
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And then there is Antanas. The cellar where he works is not heated, so his cough is growing worse and worse.
There have been wave after wave of different nationalities coming to Packingtown to work for these factories: first the Germans, then the Irish, then the Polish, then the Lithuanians, then the Slovaks.
Each wave of immigrants only stays until the factory managers find another group willing to work for less.
Each wave of immigrants only stays until the factory managers find another group willing to work for less.
What they don't tell you is that, yeah, the pay is better in America than it is in Lithuania, but the cost of living is much, much higher. So that money doesn't go as far as it would in the Old Country.
So, there have been several families (one German, one Irish, and one Bohemian a.k.a. from eastern Europe) who have lived in Jurgis's house before they moved in. None of these families have been able to keep up their payments, and they have all been evicted.
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Still,Teta Elizebieta insists that they hold a proper wedding feast even when they are poor
Otherwise,they will have given up all of their home country traditions
They are certain that the cost of the wedding feast will be returned at the feast,but they aren't sure how to raise enough upfront mone.
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Marija goes back out on the job market, but since all of the canning factories seem to have shut down for the post-holiday slump, she doesn't find anything
So, she tries shops, bars, and, finally, she looks for work as a servant to rich families on the lake front.
The meatpacking factories don't close, but they offer shorter and shorter working hours during the winter.
This means Jurgis is bringing in less and less money, even though he's still working hard.
There is usually a rush at the end of the day when they have to work double-time to process all of the cattle that have come in during the day.
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Marija is so excited, right up until the minute when disaster strikes: her canning factory is shut down and won't reopen again for at least a month.
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Jurgis and Ona are in love,and they can't wait to get in love.
There is another Lithuanian family living near by,their name was the Majauzkis family.
She is absolutely thrilled, and the two spend as much time in each other's company as they can.
The brining chemicals have also eaten through Antanas's boots, and have given him intense sores on his feet that won't heal.
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She has a wonderful time going out like this, and she brings back stories for the family to enjoy.
One Saturday night, coming back from one of these parties, Tamoszius gets down on one knee and proposes to Marija.
They plan to get married in the spring, and to fix up the attic into an apartment for them to share.