English B1A CLASS PACK - Bakersfield College

GROUP 5 Chapter XXII, pg. 209-211Jurgis joined a gang and worked from dawn till dark, eighteen hours a day, for two weeks …. Then he hada sum of money that would have been a fortune to him in the old days of misery--but what could he do with it now?…. he went to a saloon. … and then out of the rear part of the saloon a girl's face, red-cheeked and merry, smiled atJurgis, and his heart thumped suddenly in his throat. He nodded to her, and she came and sat by him, and they hadmore drink, and then he went upstairs into a room with her, and the wild beast rose up within him and screamed, asit has screamed in the Jungle from the dawn of time…. In the van of the surplus-labor army, there followed another,an army of women, they also struggling for life under the stern system of nature. Because there were rich men whosought pleasure, there had been ease and plenty for them so long as they were young and beautiful… they went outto follow upon the trail of the workingmen…. In the morning Jurgis … was sick and disgusted, but after the newplan of his life, he crushed his feelings down. He had made a fool of himself, but he could not help it now--all hecould do was to see that it did not happen again…. It would be a long time before he could be like the majority ofthese men of the road, who roamed until the hunger for drink and for women mastered them, and then went to workwith a purpose in mind, and stopped when they had the price of a spree.On the contrary, try as he would, Jurgis could not help being made miserable by his conscience…(211)…and to know that they were gone from him forever, and he writhing and suffocating in the mire of his own vileness!ANDChapter XXIII, pg. 214, middle of the second paragraphHe had now no home to go to; he had no affection left in his life--only the pitiful mockery of it in the camaraderie ofvice.GROUP 6 Chapter XXIII, pg. 215, third paragraphJurgis spent his Christmas in this hospital, and it was the pleasantest Christmas he had had in America… his onlycomplaint was that they used to feed him upon tinned meat, which no man who had ever worked in Packingtownwould feed to his dog. Jurgis had often wondered just who ate the canned corned beef and "roast beef" of thestockyards; now he began to understand--that it was what you might call "graft meat," put up to be sold to publicofficials and contractors, and eaten by soldiers and sailors, prisoners and inmates of institutions, "shantymen" andgangs of railroad laborers.75