Der Dschungel pg. 250-300

Well, Antanas has died. All Jurgis can do is look at her body and try to hide from reality. Well, all these problems are getting to him and are driving him emotionally crazy. To hide he gets on a railroad car and rides to the country where he gets out because it in a way revives him. Out there he washes up and everything, then he goes to a farmer and tries to buy food from him, but the farmer denies him calling Jurgis a "tramp". To return the favor Jurgis, trying to find more food, rips up a lot of the farmers young peach trees. He does end up finding a farmer that sells him food, this farmer also offers Jurgis work, but Jurgis declines it because it doesn't go into the winter. Well, for a while Jurgis continues to wonder through the country making by with doing work for farmers stealing, and foraging. The money he makes though is used in wrong ways, for alcohol and women. Right now my emotions are really feeling sad. When reading his whole new personality and view on life all I can think about is just how much he has changed, it started with him being really happy, but now he just doesn't care. I also think of Elzbeta during this, I mean, has he just forgotten about her? Well, those are my thoughts, but back to the story. When winter starts to come Jurgis goes back to town to get a job for winter there and to avoid the cold. He gets a job digging underground tunnels, but Jurgis keeps spending his earnings on alcohol. He breaks his arm in an accident and goes to the hospital where they kick him out after a few weeks. From there he goes to these religious revival sessions just for shelter, but doesnt really like them. This winter was a bad one to have lost his job though, there was very little opportunity, and it was tough to find shelter. While begging Jurgis meets a guy called Freddie Jones that offers him dinner, Freddie also pays for the cab and gives the change to Jurgis, but the crazy thing was that he paid with a hundred dollar bill. After finding out that this guy is the son of his first employer Freddie goes to sleep and the butler kicks Jurgis out. Thats all for now, I hope you enjoyed it and stayed tuned for The Jungle pages 300-350!