The couple and several relatives had come to Chicago in search of a better life. The area where their relatives moved to was a center of Lithuanian immigration. But the area they moved to a hard, dangerous, and filthy place where it is difficult to find a job. After the reception, the couple discovered that they are more than a hundred dollars in debt to the saloonkeeper. In Lithuania, its custom that guests at a wedding-feast leave money to cover the cost, but since they were in America, many of the guest leave the feast without leaving any money since money was being budgeted amongst each person due to the lack of jobs available.
Cynthia Matos March 17, 2014 Latin I Period 4 During the repression everyone had been suffering from lack of food, water, and nutrition, everyone but the rich. They would walk past us with their fine jewels, and riches while we sit here suffering from the debt the country has put us in, but the one person everyone had despised was our great king Fernan. He was the richest of the rich, and would walk around our town with his servants feeding him, rubbing his food in our faces while we starve, but one day he will get what he deserves. I gathered the towns’ people over to the town square garden for a secret meeting in talking about the rich. I stated, “Why should we sit here and suffer while the rich are treated with luxuries and jewels, because we are poor?
She never thinks about killing is really going to happen. Then, as the owner of the brothel, Skinny views the prostitutes as his property – same as horses. A man doesn’t know how to respect people neither has “just” idea. Little Bill is the worst. As the sheriff of the Big Whiskey, he controls the whole town with his own “justice” – the rules filling of violence.
The camps are overcrowded and full of starving migrants, who are often nasty to each other. The locals are fearful and angry at the flood of newcomers, whom they derisively label “Okies.” Work is almost impossible to find or pays such a meager wage that a family’s full day’s work cannot buy a decent meal. Fearing an uprising, the large landowners do everything in their power to keep the migrants poor and dependent. While staying in a ramshackle camp known as a “Hooverville,” Tom and several men get into a heated argument with a deputy sheriff over whether workers should organize into a union. When the argument turns violent, Jim Casy knocks the sheriff unconscious and is arrested.
At this time Social Darwinism was being introduced into society and perfectly depicts the life of the poor, injured, and sick. It is impossible for an immigrant to keep a job for any measurable length of time because of the dangerous conditions of the time, the risk of sickness, and the many people waiting in line to jump in and take a weak person’s job. The strong and willing were the only people who worked. The strong were the ones who did not surrender to the temptation of alcohol and drugs. The strong were the ones who caught the eyes of employers, and the strong were the ones who were able to provide for their family and move up in the world.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair tells the story of a Lithuanian family struggling to stay alive in central Chicago, known as Packingtown during the early 1900s. Since their migration to America, they had been faced with the challenges of adapting to the American style of living and trying to find jobs to support themselves. They endured harsh winters and sweltering summers, which caused many disappointments and tragedies, such as, having no money, lost jobs, injuries, and sickness. The family fought through many difficult ups and downs, but they always tried to stick together. The man of the household, Jurgis Rudkus, did not want his wife Ona to work in the factories, but because of their financial struggle she and the children went out to get jobs, such as, selling newspapers and working in the canning industry.
Due to a financial bond with the government, he is forced to work in the remote town of Tiboonda. When the school year ends, he plans to return to Sydney for a holiday to visit his girlfriend, but on the way has to stop in the town of Bundanyabba. The people of the town encourage Grant to drink copious amounts of alcohol and engage in gambling, that eventuates into his down fall until one day he unsuccessfully attempts committing suicide. ‘Wake in Fright’ is not the typical Australian
They both hated, and disagreed fully with the party, of course not showing those feelings, in fear of being vaporized. Winston loved seeing or hearing about corruption in the party, which Julia told him about. He wanted Big Brother gone, but sharing his feelings, could end up placing him in the two minute hate. Julia had sexual activities with most of the party members, hundreds to thousands of them. This showed extreme corruption to the party, and Winston loved it.
The video then talks about the meat packing industry and how it is the most dangerous job in the world so illegal immigrants have become common. The government has started cracking down on workers not the companies so this is an ongoing process. Jumps back to the honest farmer that does it old fashioned and has him talking about how the whole system of industry will be changed from the excessive demand. The system has become very vicious and consequences for not following regulations have become so severe that the accused farmers are put out of business. The video closes with statements like buy organic and support do good farmers.
He experiences vexation because he is unable to provide his family with basic living essentials, like a bed. Both Gatsby and Walter make sacrifices to impress their loved ones, however. Although Gatsby’s business venture was a success and Walter’s was a complete failure, both involved illegal dealings and were not allowed in that current era. For example, Gatsby made a living by bootlegging alcohol, “He [Gatsby] and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol ... I picked him for a bootlegger … and I wasn’t far wrong” (Fitzgerald, 141).