From The Jungle: Why does the author most likely use the term it so frequently in paragraph 3?
“A full hour before the party reached the city they had begun to note the perplexing
changes in the atmosphere. It grew darker all the time, and upon the earth the grass
seemed to grow less green. Every minute, as the train sped on, the colors of things
became dingier; the fields were grown parched and yellow, the landscape hideous
and bare. And along with the thickening smoke they began to notice another
circumstance, a strange, pungent odor. They were not sure that it was unpleasant,
this odor; some might have called it sickening, but their taste in odors was not
developed, and they were only sure that it was curious. Now, sitting in the trolley car,
they realized that they were on their way to the home of it-that they had traveled all
the way from Lithuania to it. It was now no longer something far off and faint, that
you caught in whiffs; you could literally taste it, as well as smell it-you could take
hold of it, almost, and examine it at your leisure. They were divided in their opinions
about it. It was an elemental odor, raw and crude; it was rich, almost rancid, sensual,
and strong. There were some who drank it in as if it were an intoxicant; there were
others who put their handkerchiefs to their faces. The new emigrants were still
tasting it, lost in wonder, when suddenly the car came to a halt, and the door was
flung open, and a voice shouted -"Stockyards!"