story for you, but this was a bad
             idea), where a friend has supposedly gotten rich. Jurgis decides to join them. After a long
             and arduous (don't worry I didn't plagiarize, this word is all me) journey, the family
             finally makes it to Packingtown, Chicago. Packingtown is a filthy, disgusting, sewage
             hole of a town and Jurgis gets a job shoveling guts on his second day there. This is where
             the story really starts to get rolling, in my opinion Sinclair should have ended the book
             Before starting his job, Jurgis and his friends get to go to a hog plant that has a
             viewing gallery for visitors, they get to watch the hogs being slaughtered, dressed, and be
             prepared for eat'n. These sights bring tears to many
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