The Jungle
Who proposes the family move to America? Why?
Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Jurgis decides that they all should instead make a new life in America. Life in America, he has heard, is better than the old country; Jurgis imagines, “He might do as he please(s), and count himself as good as any other man.”
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