The Jungle chapter 27

Jurgis begins begging for a job, but it sucks because he can't really find one in his most desparate time, and whats even worse is that because he was used to actually having money he was not used to be homeless again. Well, he gets a job...but gets fired right away because he is weak. Winter approaches, and election time arrives again. He attends a political meeting where he can stay warm, but a policeman throws him out after he falls asleep and begins to snore. While begging for the price of a night's stay, Jurgis sees someone he used to know. She does not have any money with her, but she gives him Marija's address. She urges Jurgis to visit her and Teta Elzbieta. She assures him that they will be happy to see him. Jurgis hurries to see Marija. When he enters the building, the police poop the party. Jurgis realizes that it is a brothel. Jurgis sees Marija, and they manage to talk a bit before the police herd them into the police station. Marija explains that neither she nor Teta Elzbieta could support the children with jobs. She adds that, moreover, Stanislovas died: he fell asleep in the storeroom of an oil factory and a swarm of rats attacked him and killed him. Marija then chose to go into prostitution in order to keep the rest of the family from starvation. She assures Jurgis that they never blamed him for running away and that they know that he did his best. The knowledge of Marija's shame and Stanislovas's horrible death haunts Jurgis throughout the night, which he spends in jail.