The Jungle: Excerpt Questions Section 1:Questions

Name 4 jobs described in Section 1, and explain the hazards of each of those.

Why does the author say the job of a fertilizer man was the worst of all?

What would happen to the bodies of the men who fell into the vats?

Of the jobs described which one would you most want to do? Explain why.

Section 2: Questions

Who would you say was treated better: the workers or the meat? Explain.

What changes would you make to the way the meat is handled in the factories?

If you were the manager of the factory, how would you justify the conditions in your factory?

Do you think problems such as these exist in food production today? Explain your thoughts on this issue.

Section 1: Questions

1.Name 4 jobs described in Section 1, and explain the hazards of each of those.

beef-luggers -who carried two-hundred-pound quarters into the refrigerator-cars; a fearful kind of work, that began at four o'clock in the morning, and that wore out the most powerful men in a few years.

wool-pluckers-whose hands went to pieces even sooner than the hands of the pickle men; for the pelts of the sheep had to be painted with acid to loosen the wool, and then the pluckers had to pull out this wool with their bare hands, till the acid had eaten their fingers off.

Hoisters- as they were called, whose task it was to press the lever which lifted the dead cattle off the floor.

fertilizer men- whose who served in the cooking rooms. These people could not be shown to the visitor, – for the odor of a fertilizer man would scare any ordinary visitor at a hundred yards, and as for the other men, who worked in tank rooms full of steam

2.Why does the author say the job of a fertilizer man was the worst of all?

Because natural fertilizer is made from recycled bodily waste

3.What would happen to the bodies of the men who fell into the vats?

They eventually became Durham's Pure Leaf Lard.

Section 2: Questions

4.Who would you say was treated better: the workers or the meat? Explain.

I would say the meat was treated better. The meat was worth money: the workers were expendable.

5.If you were the manager of the factory, how would you justify the conditions in your factory?

I would justify it as the process of earning money.

6.Do you think problems such as these exist in food production today? Explain your thoughts on this issue.

No because I believe it is totally different from today because we know the process of how we should use to do it till how we do it now.

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