The Jungle #1: Perseverance

I agree with you Maddie, the family seems very optimistic when in America. This surprised me because of what they get put through with the labor jobs. If I was put through that I would be very depressed, not as happy as them. I couldn’t believe how horrible Jurgis’s wedding was. When the people take advantage of the food and make no donations to them. Jurgis is very open-minded. He seems so confident when his new wife talks about not having enough money from people not donating. He says he will just work harder and get more money. How could anyone do that? Perseverance does seem like it will be an important theme throughout the story. This will be especially true if the family never gets a better life. They will have to preserver throughout their whole experience in America. If they do not continue their perseverance their lives would fall apart. This is a possibility of the story ending sadly, having the family fall apart. Consumption, no I am not quite sure what they are talking about there. I think they may be saying something about the family members getting tuberculosis, having some disease in their lungs. That would definitely affect they family latter in the story if that is what they are talking about. The family could die off; this would change the perspective of the story and affect the theme of perseverance. The people would then be persevering to survive rather than fight through the work.