By: Captain Ryan As I opened the cover of The Jungle, I anticipated reading a tragic story about the cruelness inflicted upon a poor, working-class family. I had read an excerpt from the novel and had conversed with people who had read it; I thought the story was going to be solid, and perhaps even entertaining. I was incredibly wrong. The beginning of the story started out slow, as it was just another “American Dream” type story. Jurgis and family came to the States seeking a better life and freedom from their homeland’s injustices. The story had potential, but the redundancy of the descriptions wore old. I only need to hear once or maybe even twice how col....

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