Jeremy Bowman
The Jungle Chapter Summaries 18 -25

Chapter 18
Jurgis gets released from jail doesn’t know the way home. Returns to his home to find it had been painted, repaired and resold to another family. Grandmother Majauszkiene tells Jurgis that his family had lost their home and moved in with Aniele Jukniene. Jurgis feels grief, agony and injustice. Jurgis relocates his family at the same time Ona is giving birth prematurely and is suffering dearly. Because the family has no money there are no doctors or midwifes to care for Ona. With only a dollar and a quarter Jurgis sets out to find help.

Chapter 19
Jurgis finds Madame haupt an enormously fat Dutch midwife and promises her twenty-five dollars within a month if she will help and she agrees. Ona and the baby die. Jurgis gets drunk.

Chapter 20
The family mourns the death of Ona. Jurgis tries to get his job back at the fertilizer factory, but is denied. Jurgis gets offered a job only to have it taken away the very next day, he also finds out that he has been “black listed.” Jurgis tries for work downtown; runs into an old acquaintance that helps Jurgis get a job at a harvester-works place. Hope is restored, but only momentarily as the harvester works place closes unexpectedly.

Chapter 21
Again Jurgis looks for work. Little children rake for food in the dumps. A settlement-worker visits and listens to Elzbietas story, then offers Jurgis a job in a steel mill. The men in the mills worked very hard and all were black with soot. Antanasa dies; he was only a year and a half.

Chapter 22
After learning the details of little Antanas death Jurigis abandons the family. Rides a train to the country. Jurgis buy some food from a farmer then has a swim and a bath. Jurgis meets many “professional tramps” and learns a great deal from them as how to survive in the back country. He then joins a harvester gang, makes money and spends in on drink. Jurgis meets Russian family with children and then cries in the woods.

Chapter 23
Jurgis goes back to Chiacago to look for job. Gets job digging tunnels finds himself going to the saloons more often. Gets hurt and can no longer work. Spends Christmas in the hospital and reminisces about past Christmases. Leaves hospital and goes to beg on the street.

Chapter 24
Jurgis meets a drunk rich guy named Freddie Jones who gives him a hundred dollar bill then takes him back home to feed him. Freddie falls asleep and the butler kicks Jurgis out.

Chapter 25
Jurgis gets robbed from a bartender and then beaten and thrown in jail for it. Jurgis and Jack take up a life of crime. He then becomes involved in politics by bringing groups of immigrants to the voter polls. Scotty Doyle gets elected by a landslide.