The Jungle
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
What is the allusion to Noah in CH 17?
What is the allusion to Noah in CH 17?
From the text:
This jail was a Noah’s ark of the city’s crime—there were murderers, “hold-up men” and burglars, embezzlers, counterfeiters and forgers, bigamists, “shoplifters,” “confidence men,” petty thieves and pickpockets, gamblers and procurers, brawlers, beggars, tramps and drunkards; they were black and white, old and young, Americans and natives of every nation under the sun.
The Jungle