English B1A CLASS PACK - Bakersfield College

The Jungle chapters XXI-XXIVDIRECTIONS: Reread the passage assigned to your group, and then answer thefollowing questions about your passage(s):3. What is happening here? What does the passage literally mean?4. Why is this passage significant to the novel?Later, you will be asked to share your answers with the class.GROUP 1 Chapter XX1, pg. 198every Saturday night he went home--bedding and all--and took the greater part of his money to the family. Elzbietawas sorry for this arrangement, for she feared that it would get him into the habit of living without them, and once aweek was not very often for him to see his baby; but there was no other way of arranging it.ANDChapter XXI, pg. 200-01They could save money again, and when another winter came they would have a comfortable place; and thechildren would be off the streets and in school again, and they might set to work to nurse back into life their habitsof decency and kindness. So once more Jurgis began to make plans and dream dreams.GROUP 2 Chapter XXII, pg. 203, second paragraphHe was fighting for his life…. He had been a fool, a fool! He had wasted his life, he had wrecked himself, with hisaccursed weakness; and now he was done with it--he would tear it out of him, root and branch! There should be nomore tears and no more tenderness; he had had enough of them--they had sold him into slavery! Now he was goingto be free, to tear off his shackles, to rise up and fight. He was glad that the end had come--it had to come sometime, and it was just as well now. This was no world for women and children, and the sooner they got out of it thebetter for them. Whatever Antanas might suffer where he was, he could suffer no more than he would have had hestayed upon earth.73