mis passage, from The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair
878-1968), tells
about Jurgis, a recent immigrant from
Chuania, who, like
thousands of others in the late
neteenth and early twentieth centuries, moved from his
ome country
to America. Set in Chicago, the novel reveals
arsh living
conditions for immigrants and their awful
periences
working in the meatpacking industry. This
cerpt
focuses on Jurgis around the time of his
nigration.
Excerpt from The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
gis was like a boy, a boy from the country.
was the sort of man the bosses like to get
d of, the sort they make it a grievance they
not get hold of. When he was told to go to
ertain place, he would go there on the
.... If he were working in a line of men, the
In which line from the passage does the author
BEST
illustrate cultural differences between
Jurgis and the other workers?
"He was the sort of man the bosses like to get hold
of...."
"If he were working in a line of men, the line always
moved too slowly for him...."
"Yes,' he would say, 'but what sort of men?""
It is plain,' they would answer to this, 'that you
have come from the country....
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