The Jungle page 201-250

        Jurgis begins to look for a job in Packingtown, but soon realizes that he has been blacklisted by Phil Connor. Jurgis soon runs into a man that was from his union, this man shows Jurgis to a factory that produces harvesting machines. The foreman at this factory gives Jurgis a job, the working conditions here are much better than his previous jobs. However Jurgis' job and his department have been closed intill further notice. One day Teta Elzbieta's son is in a dump looking for food when a wealthy woman finds him. She then ventures to their boarding house with him, and writes a letter of recommendation for Jurgis at a steel mill. Jurgis gets a job at the steel mill, but it is too far away to travel home everyday. One day when he arrives at the boardinghouse he discovers that his son Antanas has drowned in the mud of the streets. Jurgis filled with grief and emotion from the death of his son, gets onto the nearest traincar and rides it into the country. After leaving the train, Jurgis runs into a farmer that sells him dinner and allows Jurgis to sleep in the barn for the night. Jurgis is offered a job from this farmer but he turns it down because it will not last year long. Jurgis returns to Chicago because of the cold weather, and he gets a job digging underground tunnels. He is confident that he will have this job for a long time, so he spends all of his money on alcohol. Unfortunately Jurgis breaks his arm and has to spend Christmas in the hospital. One night while begging in the streets Jurgis finds a man named Freddie Jones and Freddie invites Jurgis into house for a meal. During their meal Jurgis finds out that Freddie is related to the owner of the factory that Jurgis worked at first.

        Jurgis throughout this entire book experiences good luck and also bad luck. The good luck is that he finds a job at the steel mill and how he runs into Freddie Jones, a very renown man in Packing town. Some of the bad luck is how he was blacklisted inside of Packingtown. Another example of bad luck was how he broke his arm on the job for working for the underground tunnels. The worst of his bad luck was when he realized that his son had just drowned in the mud.