finds and rides out into the country in an attempt to put all that has happened behind him. Jurgis returns to the city when winter arrives and finds a job digging a tunnel. Jurgis suffers an accident while working and is sent to the hospital where he spends his Christmas, only to be released in the dead of winter. Jurgis is forced to resort to begging and living in saloons. He happens to find a drunken man who invites him to his home where he is treated to a huge feast and given a hundred-dollar bill before he is kicked out of the house by the butler.As Jurgis attempts to change the hundred-dollar bill in a saloon, he is cheated out of his money and is arrested after he attacks the bartender. He is sent to jail and meets a fellow convict by the name of Jack Duane. Jurgis decides that a life of crime is the only way to survive anymore and as soon as he is released from prison he meets up with Jack and they become partners in crime. Jurgis begins meeting the political and criminal underground of Chicago and is eventually introduced to Mike Scully. Scully helps Jurgis find work and Jurgis becomes one of Scully’s “friends.” During the chaos of an ensuing strike in the stockyards, Jurgis meets Connor and attempts to kill him again.Jurgis is sent to jail again and finds that Connor is a good friend of Scully and that the only thing Jurgis can do is leave town. Jurgis heads out to the other side of town and is forced to beg for work again. Jurgis happens to run into someone who remembers him and tells him where he can find the rest of his family. He finds Marija, the cousin of Ona, in a whorehouse and learns she has been forced to work as a prostitute. They talk briefly about what has happened since he left, and he leaves shortly there after.While walking Jurgis finds a political meeting which he enters to stay warm. He begins to listen to the speaker and realizes that this speaker is talking about something tha...
