The Jungle Chapters 23-26

It is very depressing that Jurgis finally finds a job and then is injured on the job. I find that the companies are terrible because Jurgis should have been able to sue but no he couldn't, for one reason. The company didn't tell him. Why should they anyways? It would only mean a loss of money to the company and probably lower wages for the workers. I find the last part of Chapter 23 to be very descriptive and disturbing. Where it is talking about the woman being dragged away by the police to the Detention Hospital. I love the imagery here. It says, “ You might see them, herded together in a miniature inferno, with hideous, beastly faces, bloated and leprous with disease, laughing, shouting, screaming in all stages of drunkenness, barking like dogs, gibbering like apes, raving and tearing themselves in delirium.” In this part of the novel it is also giving the reader another preview as to why the book is called The Jungle. I believe that it is named so because of the way everybody in Packingtown is dragged down to the bare minimum of living that their inner beast is dragged out. The town has turned from civilized immigrants to a pit of mindless beasts equivalent to living in a jungle. What does Aladdin have to do with anything? I don’t believe that Aladdin’s story was out yet. Yeah, the book was published in 1906 and Aladdin didn’t come out until 1992. I still don’t get the point of including it in the book.