The Jungle page 251-300

        Jurgis tries to get change for his one hundred dollar bill, by taking it to a bar. The bartender tells Jurgis that he has to buy a drink first in order to get change. Jurgis buys a  drink for five cents and the bartender gives Jurgis 95 cents in change. Jurgis attacks the bartender because he was cheated, and he was later arrested and sentenced to jail for ten days. After being in jail Jurgis then thinks that it would be a good idea to turn to a life of crime. He and a man named Jack Duane mug a well dressed man, and Jurgis gets 55 dollars from this. However Jurgis worries about what happens to his victims, because the wealthy man lost a finger to frostbite while unconscious. Jurgis then becomes a member of a vote buying group where he helps corrupt politicians in Packingtown. Jurgis helps out the Republican candidate, and Jurgis brings in numerous immigrant workers into the polls. After the Republican gets elected Jurgis earns three hundred dollars. There was a big strike in Packingtown so then Jurgis is urged to become a scab and work while he can at the factories. Jurgis then runs into Phil Connor again and attacks him again, this later leads to Jurgis' arrest. After Jurgis is arrested he pays his bail and then leaves town. Jurgis is now out of  a job and he can't find any work because the strike has just ended in Packingtown. He is out on the streets again begging for money just to spend a night in a warm bed. The Jurgis runs into someone that he had known from the first years he was in Packingtown. This lady gives Jurgis the address that Marija and Teta Elzbieta are working. Soon after arriving their is a police raid on the building and Jurgis discovers the building is a brothel. He talks to Marija about the family just before he gets arrested again.

       I thought that it was a little bit funny how the bartender tried to trick Jurgis out of one hundred dollars by giving him 95 cents in change for a five cent drink. I also think that it is weird how many times Jurgis gets thrown into jail during his stay in the United States. I also think that it is ironic how Jurgis earns a lot of money, thinks that he will keep earning this money so he spends it all on alcohol, and then he loses his job. Jurgis also needs to control his anger, because he had a good job in a meat packing factory when he attacked Phil and then thrown in jail, causing him to lose his job.