Upton Sinclair The Jungle Analysis

His hand is shaking. Francis, I 'm going out for cigarettes” (Mccourt 36). Each time a child dies, depression from the McCourt parents builds, which forces Frankie and his siblings to care for themselves more than usual. Another effect of the death of the child is Malachy 's relentless drinking, and Angela 's smoking. However, this has a domino effect on the remaining people in the family since they would spend the few dollars that they managed to scrape up on cigarettes and alcohol; “There may be a lack of tea or bread in the house but Mam and Dad always manage to get the fags, the Wild Woodbines.

The family was forced to take Stanislovas out of school and get him a job at the lard machine. The factory was not fit for a kid, the boy witnessed traumatizing events and began to fear the walk to work (Sinclair 75). Teta Elzbieta’s two sons, Nikalojus and Vilimas, and Kotrina are sent out to sell newspapers and earn extra income to support the family. The children are taken advantage of by a man claiming to know of a newspaper store, but he took their money and never came back (Sinclair 127. One day Stanislovas fell asleep after drinking too much and was killed and half eaten by the rats.

When Castle cut his shoes to go faster but this only hurt him because his classmate Shamika embarrassed him. “Shamika couldn’t get herself together long enough to even speak, so instead she just pointed at my feet” (Reynolds 80). What Shamika did made Castle so frustrated that he skipped school and made him realize it was a waste of money which was already a problem in his family. Another time shoes played a big role was when Castle stole the “Silver Bullets” from the sports store. When Castle first stole the shoes he thought it was the best thing he has done for his track career but he was punished for it.”A close-up of my

Mickey being in the poor part of the city ends up accidentally killing his best friend and “Blood Brother”. But the choices Mickey made in his life also affected how his life turned out. It did not help that he was always poor, and did not have the same opportunities that Edward had, but the combination of being poor, turning to crime, and finally the possibility of losing his girl “Linda” made Mickey rebel against the harsh realities of his

The Jungle is a story that revolves around the protagonist Jurgis Rudkus and his family, the Lithuanian immigrant who came to America to lead a better life and worked at meatpacking plants of early 20th century Chicago. The story showcases the hardship that they underwent due to the harsh and bad working condition, poverty, starvation and being cheated by unjust people agents, eventually losing all their money. The Jungle provides us ways to look at the unfettered capitalism that prevailed in the early 20th century. This book also exposes the corruption, inequality, unjustness, sickness and slavery that existed in the society. Jurgis started off firmly believing on his American dream of having a better life where he would work hard and earn lots of money.

In Death of a Salesman, after many years of struggling to pay for all the bills, Willy decides to commit suicide because he wanted the insurance money to be given to Biff, his son but at his funeral, the readers find out: "I made the last payment on the house today.Today, dear. And there'll be nobody home." (Miller 112) Willy’s suicide was an attempt to do his family a favor by getting them money, but after so many years of working as a salesman trying to make enough money to support his family, his work finally paid off. However, Willy won’t get to enjoy his accomplishment which makes the readers feel aggravated and discouraged. This is said because Willy has worked at the same business place for so many years and has went on so many business trips to earn the money but as soon as he commits suicide to get his family money from the insurance, the bills on the house were done being

This was the same case in the film, ‘Of Mice and Men’ where George and Lennie were planning to buy their dream farm as it would have made life much more stable. Joad mentioned, “The children ain’t getting enough to eat as it is… My grandpa took up this land 70 years ago. We was all born on it.” In the film ‘Grapes of Wrath’, where Jim Casy began to organize workers after getting released from the jail, he gets killed by the police officers and Tom Joad retaliates and kills the police officers. The extreme conditions of the Great Depression caused these men to disregard the distinction between a human and an animal or a slave. These external conflicts during this era has created immense internal conflicts.

The setting of John Updike’s “The A&P” is critical to our understanding Sammy’s decision to quit his job. Although Lengel’s uncompromising squabble with the young girls may seem like the main cause of Sammy’s decision to quit, it in fact actually played a small role. After all Sammy is a 19 year old boy that lives with his parents that is getting near the stage in his life of becoming his own independent person. Under those circumstances, Sammy can’t afford to quit his job for no reason. The A&P’s boring and mundane setting is the antagonist and plays an equally important role as the protagonist Sammy in this story.

“Of-course, he was drunk that night (line 24),” and “He swore and stomped off (line 35),” the reader can sense the negativity surrounding his father. It gives the idea of Bilgere being abandoned by his drunken father to tend to his father’s own divorce with the mother. “On their own divorce, their balance/Long gone and the hard ground already/Rising up to smite them (lines 38-40),” the alcoholism eventually destroyed the family as well. Nonetheless, he had to learn by himself the way of life, “Alone down the neighborhood’s/ Black street like the lonely western hero/ I still catch myself in the act/ Of performing (lines 45-48).” Now that the poet is a lot older and despite the circumstances he went through with his father, he was able to grow on his own. The reader is able to feel the shift of tone through-out the poem more

Naden khaled Ms. Amanda 11C 22/2/2017 Women’s Education and Jobs in The Antebellum Era Although women in the antebellum era were far from seen as equal american citizens, many changes happened that affected the way that the community looks at women. From nothing to schools that helped them learn and help them get a bigger opportunity. Despite how great women are now, long ago they didn’t have the right to work or even to go to schools. Women were expected to sit at home take care of the kids and maybe take care of a farm if she had one. Before the civil war women had somewhat of an education.

As well as their parents resulted in criminalization of young individuals and families. Solomon, 2007) has also criticise this and argued that the majority of these family are from lower socio-economic background. The imposition of the ASBO on young people were also criticise because many younger offender had to wear tagging in school or in the community. Whereby they often becomes victims of violence themselves as well as been stigmatised. Some 40% of ASBO have been imposed on younger children ten to seventeen which many received breached, while Youth justice (2004) also highlighted that the Parenting Orders have been successful in influence parents and their children whereby parenting programs have brought about respect reference have also discuss that parent Orders have disrupts the life of many young people and their families and not allowed normal protection.