![]() ![]() His fiancée Ona starts working in packaging, while her cousin Marija begins painting cans, and even Jurgis’s elderly father tries to land some job in order not to be dependent on others, among other family members. ![]() Jurgis Rudkus is a twenty-one year old man eager to work at any job in America and soon finds himself in a meat-processing factory, working in very unhygienic and even horrifying environment. This graphic novel is based on a classic novel by Upton Sinclair The Jungle that tells of a Lithuanian family of immigrants who arrive to Chicago, Illinois in 1899 and find their hopes slowly turning to dust as they all take jobs exploiting them and their desperate need to survive in the foreign country. “ Sometimes even to live is an act of courage” (Seneca). “The opposite of poverty is not wealth, the opposite of poverty is enough” (Dr. ![]()
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