TAILIEUCHUNG - The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by author and journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to point out the troubles of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century. The novel depicts in harsh tones poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the working class, which is contrasted with the deeply-rooted corruption on the part of those in power. | THE JUNGLE by Upton Sinclair 1906 Prepared and Published by Ebd Chapter 1 It was four o clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way owing to the exuberance of Marija Berczynskas. The occasion rested heavily upon Marija s broad shoulders it was her task to see that all things went in due form and after the best home traditions and flying wildly hither and thither bowling every one out of the way and scolding and exhorting all day with her tremendous voice Marija was too eager to see that others conformed to the proprieties to consider them herself. She had left the church last of all and desiring to arrive first at the hall had issued orders to the coachman to drive faster. When that personage had developed a will of his own in the matter Marija had flung up the window of the carriage and leaning out proceeded to tell him her opinion of him first in Lithuanian which he did not understand and then in Polish which he did. Having the advantage of her in altitude the driver had stood his ground and even ventured to attempt to speak and the result had been a furious altercation which continuing all the way down Ashland Avenue had added a new swarm of urchins to the cortege at each side street for half a mile. This was unfortunate for already there was a throng before the door. The music had started up and half a block away you could hear the dull broom broom of a cello with the squeaking of two fiddles which vied with each other in intricate and altitudinous gymnastics. Seeing the throng Marija abandoned precipitately the debate concerning the ancestors of her coachman and springing from the moving carriage plunged in and proceeded to clear a way to the hall. Once within she turned and began to push the other way roaring meantime Eik Eik Uzdaryk-duris in tones which made the orchestral uproar sound like fairy music. Z. Graiczunas Pasilinksminimams darzas. Vynas. Sznapsas. Wines and

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