Literature-Gilded+Age+and+Progressive+Era

1. The characters from //The Jungle// – descriptions, relationships, struggles, and outcome 2. The settings of //The Jungle// – specific names, locations, and descriptions 3. The major plot events from //The Jungle// (chapters 1, 2, 3, 9, 14, and 23) 4. The struggles between the “old world traditions” and “new world traditions” within //The Jungle//, specifically in the opening chapter 5. Examples of the theme illusion vs. reality for the immigrants in //The Jungle// 6. Themes of //The Jungle// 7. Upton Sinclair’s writing style and impact on society 8. Be able to read a poem, analyze the poem, and connect the overall themes and ideas with //The Jungle//
 * Literary**

__Marija__ - Cousin of Ona and organized the wedding. She was an orphan and is large and strong. She came to America because of her last boss and opportunity. She becomes a prostitute and morphine addict and still supports the family. She tried to protect herself against her corrupt boss. She also struggles with being physically and emotionally abused by her last boss. She has pressure to protect her cousin. __Ona__ - She is the bride and a 15 year old girl. She is kind and lovely. She is also shy and timid and her father died. Her family was wealthy and the father got broke then died. She returned to work 7 days after Little Antanas is born. Also is raped by her boss but she does not tell Jurgis. She dies in chapter 19 during childbirth and the child dies too. The grind killed her and her life. She was tricked into spending lots of money and needed save for America because they needed to stay at a hotel. Inspectors robbed them and they were stuck paying a huge wedding bill. She loses her father and losses money. She is starting to become physically sick and she is pregnant with her second child. She is miserable and is crying hysterically. Her emotions are all over the place. The American dream is dead at this point and this industry has destroyed her. __Jurgis__ - He is Ona's husband and is a huge muscular man. He gets hired because of his size. He does not get mad and is a very gentle guy. He thinks he is going to get the American dream and he is very optomistic. He can work hard and non-stop. He lost his original job by spraining his ankle. He is in jail 3 times for fighting. his family is evicted and gets involved in corruption and he is the muscle for the mob. He left his family after Little Antanas dies. He struggles with his job and what the people have to do in it. Also he does not make a lot of money with this job. Also with Ona he is tricked into spending money in a hotel and does not understand his job. He had to wait until he got to America to marry Ona. They do not really know each other and he gets drunk a lot. He is very depressed. He also does not know how to handle what is going on. He is losing it and he does not know to handle himself. His family and life is falling apart. Not only the industry kills him but he is killing himslef. __Antanas Rudkis__ - Jurgis' and Ona's son, he was once a strong boy, but he drowned while Jurgis was at work. This signals the death of hope in Jurgis' life. __Teta Elzbieta__ - She is Ona's stepmother and Jonas' sister. She suggested that they all go to America to get rich but when they get there it is not what they expected. __Phil Connor__ - Ona's boss, sexually harasses her and eventually rapes her. He is tied to crime, politics, and business, making for a bad person to mess with. __Grandfather Anthony (Dede Antanas)__ - He is Jurgis' father and dies in between chapters 3 and 9. He worked to death. __Jokubus and Lucija__ - They are deli owners. They encourage Jonas and his family to move to America and when things he thought were great they really weren't going to be great for them. __Aniele__ - Owns the boardinghouse. __Jonas__ - Ona's step uncle and encourage his family to move to Chicago and get rich.
 * 1. Characters:**

2. **Setting:** The Jungle takes place in the meatpacking plants and stockyards of Chicago during the opening years of the twentieth century.

3. **Major Plot Events:** In chapter 1 the Wedding sets this happy moment and upbeat tone. He was to talk about the tradition of the wedding. In chapters 2 and 3 Jurgis and his family save lots of money to make a tip to America. They believe that in America they can make lots of money, but they really make a little. Jurgis gets a job right away, for his size, doesn't understand what he is doing and gets paid very little. In their journey to America they get robbed and they came uneducated. In chapters 9, 14, and 23 Jurgis wanted to join the union. Also he got paid to vote. People give him free food and drinks for voting. Also Jurgis starts to drink and Ona becomes really depressed and emotional. They talk about how the sausages are made.

4. **Old World Traditions and New World Traditions:** In the opening chapter there is a wedding party and lithuanian tradition states that anyone who comes in hungry must leave full including strangers. All of the males at the party must take turns dancing with the bride and after must pool money to help pay for the event. The problem is that the younger generation doesn't want to pay this money and they either just leave or sneak out, which is frowned upon. Also the atire that is worn by the older generation is more traditional and lithuanian but the younger people are wearing suits that they bought from stores in America. So while the older generation of lithuanian try to hold on to their traditions and ways of life the younger generations try to integrate into a newer American way of life.

5. **Illusion vs. Reality:** Before the immigrants make it to the United States they hear talk of America being a place of opportunity and promise where the streets are paved with gold and any man can become rich. The sad truth is that these stories are planted in other countries by large businesses to get people to come to America looking for work and then drive up competition for jobs and down wages. Also when people arrive they assume they will be greeted and welcomed with open arms but instead are taken advantage of and robbed just like Jurgis was.

6. **Themes:**
 * 1) **American Dream**
 * 2) **Illusion vs Reality for immigrants**
 * 3) Illusion- roads were painted gold, freedom, America is going to solve everything as long as you work hard.
 * 4) Reality- everyone is being robbed, working in factories, This is a scam, you have no freedom to do anything
 * 5) **Evil of big business**
 * 6) **Old vs New traditions**
 * 7) **Corruption**

7. Upton Sinclair writes it how he sees it, he portrays his stories exactly how they would in real life in the settings. Especially in the jungle he doesn't make anything worse or better than it actually was he gives you the straight and horrifying facts. The way he really impacts society is how he demonstrates in the novel on how the American Dream is not reality for most people and only select few really get only even part of the "Dream". Also everyone realizes how corrupt and oblivious the American society.