Homework#9 Wednesday And Rarely just Ilness

In "The Jungle" the main character Jorgis knows that his job poses hazards of every kind of extreme due to the careless and unregulated CANONS company like most companies during the industrial revolution in america. When one of the cattle were not fully stunned and was sent to be killed it took off running around the foggy CACOPHIC  plant. Jorgis managed to dodge the men and mass of chaotic knives as well as the foreman who was  shooting blindly with a rifle through the smog trying to put the animal down only to step wrongly and break his ankle. Although this was a rather MUNDANE injury compared to everthing that could have happened to him that day itcosted him dearly because he would be laid up for months. And what he feared most would have to happen that his wife would have to support the family all while he laid in bed and sulked about. His illness could be a symbol for the job market of the time in the book and how easily the family had taken the bait into the financial traps that they would have to live with. Because as easy as it was that Jorgis got the injury and although it could have been worse the pain was excruciating and it laid him up for weeks with no pay.