The Jungle LAST CHAPTER!!!!!

Okay so now that we are done reading this we can finally get on with our lives!(not really cause we have to read two more books) This was a sad chapter in anyones eyes because, even though they are doing what had to be done to survive in that time period it still shouldn't be like that. Marija is a prostitute and this is sad but it gets worse. She feels as if she needs to be one for the rest of her life! What is this saying about that time period? It just really touched me that things had to be this way and im glad that we dont live in a society such as one Jurgis and his family had to live in.

The Jungle Chapter's 29 and 30!!!!!!

Chapter 29:

I didn't really like this chapter; this chapter really confused me. Jurgis' friend is really intelligent but half the time I couldn't follow along with what he was saying. Especially when he started talking about socialism. I doubt Jurgis even know what he is saying, but there is still some meaning to what he says. Like when he said that we live in a "Land of the Free" but don't really stay true to that. I felt like this was true because even thought it seems like they are free, everyone is still be controlled by the government.

Chapter 30:

I liked this chapter a little because his life is getting better. It seems like he has regained his life back. To me, all this means is that something bad is about to happen. I dont think this book is just going to change they way things happen. Like how he is earning $30 a month now. That's a lot better then what he was making earlier in the book, but every time he starts making money, he either goes to jail, gets fired, or spend it all on booze and prostitutes. I do not have a good feeling about the end of the book.


Opener Comma
Coordinating Conjunction 
Semi-Colon

Chapters 27 and 28!

Okay so Jurgis is working as a tramp again. This makes me happy because even though he doesn't have a permanent job he isn't a criminal anymore. Jurgis eventually resulted to digging in the trash for food which is terrible because he cant afford to provide for himself. He heard of a soup kitchen that gives out free soup for the unemployed and that, to me, is how you know your as low as you can get. If i were him i would probably go back to Chicago because at least he was getting paid. Then he met this woman that he knew who also knew where Marija  was. When he met up with Marija it was so crazy. He also found out that most of his family was still alive and i thougt that was pretty cool because know he might go back to the way he used to be.

The Jungle Chapter 26!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I liked this chapter because he keeps his job as a hog trimmer, and he got a different job as a BOSS. This excited me because he is finally in charge of something. Although this chapter was good, I didn't like how he went back to jail; while in jail he also learned that Phil Connor is one of Scully's favorites. This only makes it worse for Jurgis. If i were him i would get out of Chicago, but instead Jurgis just leaves Packingtown. If he were smart he would know that Chicago has little job openings with a large demand for jobs and i don't see it working out for him in the end of the story.

Chapters 23, 24, and 25

Chapter 23:
Okay, the beginning of this made me mad because he is STILL drinking. I mean come on, if you're going to have an addiction at least try to control it. Don't just go out and spend all your money on booze right when you get paid. This chapter was also sad because it said that he had no more affection in his life and that touched me. It was like saying that he had no more heart. It was, again, sad because he spent his Christmas in the hospital and said it was the best one he had in America.

Chapter 24:
I think Freddie is a great friend to Jurgis  even though they just met. The only thing i didn't like about him was that at first he was trying to say Jurgis had a good life, that he didn't need money. I thought it was kind of ironic that Freddie ended up being the son of the man who owned the first factory that Jurgis worked at.

Chapter 25:
I HATED this chapter. Jurgis is a TERRIBLE person now. He is doing anything in his power just to get money. He has turned into a criminal. He used to be this great guy that cared about everything he believed in but now he has turned into an American. I honestly thought he was going to try to change Packingtown but no. Instead he is mugging people and helping in crimes and it is just HORRIBLE.

Response to Chapter's 20-23

Chapter 20:
I like this chapter at first because even though Phil Connor put Jurgis on a blacklist for Packingtown he was still able to find work at a factory that makes harvesting equipment. What i didn't like about this was that the part of the factory he was working in, soon closed so now Jurgis out of work again.

Chapter 21:
This chapter was really sad but, at first it was kind of happy. I thought it was gross how the crippled child had to go to the DUMP to look for food. Also, the beginning was happy because, at the dump one day, he meets a rich woman who finds Jurgis a new job(YAYYY). The only thing bad about this job is that he can't go home during the week. Now onto the sad part. Jurgis' son was in a freak accident and drowned in the mud in the streets. I HATED this because Jurgis had been through so much and his son was the only thing he had left but now Antanas is gone too.

Chapter 22:
This Chapter, at first, gave me a lot of hope for Jurgis. He went to go try and regain himself (i don't know how else to say that) and he was making progress. BUT in the end he ended up drinking, AGAIN!!!!!!! I do not like this because he is spending ALL his money on alcohol and women. If he is going to have this kind of behavior then he is never going to be himself again.

The Jungle Chapters 7-19!!!!!(NOT FUN)

Chapter 7:
In this chapter i felt bad that Ona and Jurgis go into debt, but what made me feel worse is that when the family was struck with illness they weren't allowed a day off work to recover. I believe that since it was the harsh conditions of the factory that caused the illness, the factory should give them time to recover. Also, them being at work handling meat while sick could potentially worsen the conditions of the factory. Another thing that struck me was that the workers lived in poverty and were homeless. Also, a large amount were waiting to take the vacancies at the factory.

Chapter 8:
I didn't really think much about this chapter. The only thing that got to me was that several workers were loosing their jobs, including Marija. Jurgis didn't loose his job, but he works less hours. This made me wonder if the factories were going to get worse because of how little money they had. Will they use more of the bad meat and will the working conditions get worse?

Chapter 9:
I liked this chapter because Jurgis finally learned about the lies that the packaging companies are telling. He also learn about the diseased meats and how other companies treat their labor force. I liked this because i see Jurgis as a man that will go and fight for what he believes in and could possibly change this.

Chapter 10:
I liked that Jurgis figured out that he had a bunch of hidden expenses on their house because now they know everything about their house and know if they can afford it or not. I don't like how Marija regained her job at the can painting company only to loose it again, especially since Ona is expecting Jurgis' child.  Although, i was quite joyful to find out that she had gotten another new job. I liked that Ona had delivered her baby boy but I was sad for Jurgis because he loves his son so much but hardly gets to see him due to his long working hours.

Chapter 11:
This chapter didn't really fill me with any emotions except i did feel a little happy knowing that Marija wants to start saving her money.

Chapter 12:
Due to Jurgis' sprained ankle he cannot go back to work for a while. This i didn't like because this hurts the family more since they are already in debt. Also, I don't like how Jonas disappeared but I have mixed feelings about his because the boys jobs as newspaper sellers.

Chapter 13:
I am relieved that Teta's youngest child died because now Kristoforas doesn't have to suffer any more but i am furious that Jurgis didn't want to help at all with the funeral. I felt that karma got back to Jurgis because now he is unable to find work. He has to settle for the worst job he can find. I think he got what was coming to him.  I think it was a good choice to put the boys back in school because they were picking up bad habits from the streets.

Chapter 14:
I didn't like this chapter because they family is suffering from all sorts of problems. Jurgis is drinking, Ona is pregnant but is ill, their son has been attacked by many illnesses, and Jurgis and Ona have grown apart. It seems as if America has changed everything this family was before they moved. They are finally becoming Americanized and I don't like it one bit!


Chapter 15:
I am outraged about what happened to Ona! I am completely on board with what Jurgis did to her boss, but i also believe that he shouldn't have done it. I mean, as much as that man did deserve it, he didn't have to go and actually do it because now he is in jail and can't see his son anymore.


Chapter 16:
I feel some sorrow for Jurgis because instead of spending Christmas with his family he is in jail with a bunch of criminals. If i were him i would pay the bail because i know i wouldnt be able to handle that kind of pain.


Chapter 17:
I felt so sad during this chapter. That judge did not give that trial a fair look. I guess that why money is power. Since Connor had more money he had more of the power so the judge will believe his side of the story which leaves Jurgis with 30 days in jail. Everyone has lost their jobs while he was in prison, and since Connor doesn't want them to get any jobs they are unable to find new ones. Now their only income is coming from the boys paper route, and them begging people for money. 


Chapter 18:
I feel like Ona going into premature labor is going to negatively affect their lives. They have just been evicted from their house because they have no money, and can barely provide for themselves. If they can't enough afford to buy themselves food what makes you think they can afford a new born? I think they are going down a tough road that they will eventually, fail to travel on.


Chapter 19:
Again, this chapter filled me with so much sorrow. Jurgis finds someone that is willing to help Ona for the dollar and 25 cents but unfortunately both Ona and the baby die. This is heartbreaking for the family as well as us readers. I also noticed that her death has put him right back on his drinking habit. 

My Response to what I have read

Okay so this book is really starting to make me mad. Once he gets to the point of what he is talking about he chanes the subject. Like when his dad was calling and he is about to answer it, then it goes to someone who looses their ability to talk. Who is this person anyways? Is it his dad or his grandpa? Where do some of these picures come from? Then how does his dad's name get in the art store? Mr. J I don't think this book is safe to read because i feel really stupid. Steven Hawkins didn't even write back to him, but he saves the letter. Why can Oskar only wear white shirts? Im hoping that all of this makes more sense towards the end. How does Oskar know that the key even belongs to something? His dad said not everything has to have a reason and maybe thats a clue to what the key means. Maybe it is just a random key that he was supposed to find in his Expedition. The key could represent more then a lock. It could represent his fathers life and now it is up to him to find out where his father is. I mean, his coffin is empty so maybe his dad really isn't dead but he is waiting for Oskar to solve the puzzle.

My Arguement

The topic that I chose was that slavery is dehumanizing towards the slaves and the slaveholders. The centeral aruement of my paper is going to be that during the slavery, it wasn't only the slaves that were dehumanized. The slaveholders were dehumanized by their actions and the slaves were dehumanized by their sufferage and the way the were treated. I can prove this because in his story he gave multiple examples of what the slaveholders would do to them and also an example of his slaveholder stopping his mistress from teaching Douglas how to read. Another thing is that slaves were treated no better than animals on the plantations they lived at if not worse. This shows that they are being treated as something other than human, more along the lines of property. When Douglas was traded to be a littles boy's play toy this shows that he was just property. I chose this argument because I felt that i knew about this topic and that Douglas did an amazing job describing this in his story.

Response to the end of Freddy D's Story

Out of all the chapters in this story, i would believe this one to be the best. Even though i don't live in this time period, nor would i be a slave if i did, this chapter filled me with hope. If he can escape slavery then who knows what we can do today? I really liked this because he went into detail about how he planned out his escape instead of just randomly deciding to run on day. No, Douglas had a well planned out escape with a lot of thought put into it. This is why slaveholders didn't want their slaves to become educated because it gives them a better chance at escaping. Knowledge is power and Douglas had bunch of it. What marveled me was that the slaveholders didn't realize that he was trying to escape because he was asking for more work randomly. Also, im surprised they didn't catch on when he started bringing home $2-$3 more each week. Obviously they weren't the smartest people. The only part about this chapter that i didn't like were the first few paragraphs because he was talking about why he can't express certain details. Overall I am ecstatic that he escaped but a little sad because there isn't more of his story to read about after he is free. 


Question 1: If, at first, the slaveholders were suspicious about him escaping why would they let him go work for some other slaveholder?
Question 2: Why would his slaveholder give him some of the money that Douglas earned for him?


Comment 1: I liked that Douglas was outsmarting the slaveholders by working as much as he can even though they didn't trust him to not run away.
Comment 2: I didn't understand why he would change his name if he is a free man.

Response on Chapter 10

I thought that chapter 10 was not as sad as the previous chapters, it was actually hopeful when he started to escape. Then when he got caught and lost all hope it got sad, but not for long. He returned to Baltimore AGAIN which is sort of a neutral thing because he liked it there but he didn't gain the freedom that he would have liked to. I don't really have much to say about this chapter other than it had a few mixed emotions. Hopefully later on at the end of the book he succeeds in escaping.

Questions and Comments on Chapter 10

Comment 1: I didn't like that the slaveholders thought that giving them Christmas off would make them not revolt.
Comment 2: I liked how Douglas planned out his escape well before he even did it

Question 1: Would you risk life to teach several slaves like yourself how to read?
Question 2:Are there any other reasons that you can think of that Douglas would give up his money to Mr.Hugh?

Comments and Questions on Chapters 8 and 9

Chapter 8:
Comment- I don't like how the slaves are always shipped off because they never get to stay with one master or with their family.
Question- How were the slaves valued when they had to be divided?

Chapter 9:
Comment- I felt this chapter was pointless because it talks mainly about how bad his masters were and what they were like instead of Douglas.
Question- What's a "nigger-breaker"?

Chapters 8, 9, and PART of 10

Chapter 8:
        I felt that this Chapter was extremely sad because when his master and his master's family died all the slaves had to be valued and separated among his master's children. This made Douglas feel like property. I didn't like this because they had no more rank on the scale of being than animals. Douglas states that he is the only one that knows what it is like to have a nice master so the separation is harder on him, but, he is also happy to return to Baltimore. What touched me in the chapter was that his grandmother was a great contribution to he master in Baltimore but when he died she was left to die, alone, without any of her children or grandchildren. The second separation he had was also a tough one but it wasn't as tough as the one he endured in the division of property. He aslo, in this chapter, learn which way he wants to run away to and feels as if this is the most important knowledge he has.

Chapter 9:
        I liked that in chapter nine he can finally give dates. I feel as if him knowing the dates is great knowledge for him because its just another factor that he can use in his escape for when he wants to run away. What i didn't like was that the way he was being treated, he wasn't used to because he hadn't been treated so poorly in over seven years. Another factor that i liked was that although his new master was mean, he lacked the confidence to make his slaves do anything. He wasn't even able to get them to call him master. But this master also had a weird, religious side and whenever he would punish one of his slaves, he would have religious reason for it. Douglas would describe him as his worst master ever.


Chapter 10:
       Chapter ten was a pain to read, but i did enjoy it, for the part that i did read. In this paragraph he got to work as a field hand for the first time in his life. Working in the field, he had to work under all conditions. I didn't like this because it just makes it easier for you to loose slaves. I mean if your going to call them your property you might as well treat them like you treat your house. But the slaves were treated much, much worse. Douglas' only day off was Sunday in which he spent most of his time sleeping. In the chapter he says that he is gonna run away, run away to the North-East. Because of the knowledge he has obtained over the years he knows that the only way he can escape slavery is if he escapes to the North. He also says that his condition was worse during the first  six months with Mr.Covey then the last six. What i liked about this was that he stood up to Mr.Covey and fought him. He won the fight even though Master Hughes helped Mr.Covey. After this Mr.Covey never laid a finger on Fredrick Douglas again.

Comments and Questions on Chapters 5-7

GARRET IS MY PARTNER.CHAPTER 5:
         Comment: I am happy because he was able to leave the plantation and become a house slave.
         Comment: I felt sorrow for him because he had to suffer more from the cold rather than hunger.
         Question: How did he survive the winter without nothing but two shirts and a sack?
         Question: Why didn't he feel bad about leaving his brothers and sisters?
CHAPTER 6:
         Comment: I'm glad he could finally see the good in white people and realized they weren't all bad.
         Comment: I was disappointed when his new mistress who seemed nice, ended up being cruel.
         Question: Why were city slave treated better?
         Question: I understand why she stopped teaching, but why did she become cruel after all?
CHAPTER 7:
         Comment: I am glad he finally learned to read and write.
         Comment: This really is the start of Douglass' escape and career as a writer.
         Question: How did he obtain the book?
         Question: Why would the mistress go against her husband and teach him how to read and write?

Chapters 5, 6, and 7

I liked these chapters because he got to go to Baltimore where they treated slaves better. I thought it was more happy than sad in these because he was happy and well treated instead of whipped and beaten. Then I got to the part where the mistress was teaching him how to read and write. I felt this part was mean because her husband comes in and yells at her because when the slaves learn to read and write they get educated and knowledge is power. He proves that slaves are people because his master in Baltimore said that slaves would become smarter than white people if they earned to read and write. In saying this he states that the slaves have the ability to learn and become smarter than their owners.

Amistad Clips Reaction

I felt that the Africans were treated poorly on the ships but it's even worse in America. They were treated like animals, they were whipped and thrown off the ships to be dragged down to the bottom of the ocean. I think i would jump off the ship because i would try to swim till i found land. I would do this so that i don't have to deal with the torture that was inflicted on the poor souls upon the ship. If i were on board with my baby then i think i would stay on the ship because it gives my baby a better chance at survival. A baby can not survive if i were to jump off with it and carry it to shore. I doubt i wouldv'e been able to make it to shore. Also, i would think that the white man would treat a baby differently than an adult. If i were a white man trying to get slaves i would want to keep the babies heathly so i can raise them as a slave.

Chapters 2, 3, and 4 reaction

I felt that these chapters were very sad because it was talking about how the slaves were getting killed for no reason and no one was being punished for it. It also was about how badly the masters treated them but the slaves always found good in them. If i were living in that time period i wouldn't have owned slaves because they have proved to be the same as us. The colonel made me mad because he owned so many slaves that he didn't even know who they were. He would talk to them about their master and they wouldn't even know its him. If they talked bad about him, he  traded them off to some other plantation owner without telling them why. He was also cruel when it came to how he punished his slaves for not listening to him. For example, when he killed Demby for not coming out of the mud. That was a little extreme if you ask me. Why would you shoot someone for not coming out of the mud. I feel like if he just whipped him it would have been better but even that was cruel. So tonight i got EXTREMELY scared because my friend went missing, ran away, and everyone was freaking out. I was especially freaking out because i was the last one to see him so i had the cops call me and question me and all the commotion was going on and i didn't know if i was going to have time to do my homework but then the police found him and everyone was relieved. 

Chapter 1 reaction

I felt that this whole 1st chapter was about the hardships that Fredrick Douglas had to go through as a slave. This story was giving me the thought the he wasn't the happiest guy in the world. Douglas didn't know what his own birthday was, he didn't know his mother very well because she died when he was just a young boy, and his dad was his master so he felt like he didn't really have much of a family. Imagine your dad ruling over you, making you work in his fields, sleep in a cramped hut, and eat as little food as possible. I wouldn't think i had a family either. Mr.J i don't like that you assigned homework on homecoming weekend because i had to work until 9 P.M. Sunday so i didn't get done with reading until like 1 in the morning. I am sure that I'm not the only one that finished late so please, next time, don't give homework on homecoming weekend. Especially when you say you don't want us reading any of this late at night. I don;t like this new way of journal entries because when we hand wrote it you could write about anything and no one would read it but now you really have to think about what you go off on when you get off subject. The way we do it right now could cause a lot of drama if someone decides to write about someone in this class