Reread the excerpt from The Jungle, focusing on the last section, where immigrants work in the
stockyards. Imagine that you are an immigrant worker on a Sunday night, and you are preparing
to go to work on Monday morning. Write a first-person narrative of at least 300 words explaining
how you prepare for another week at the stockyard and the meat-packing plant. Use descriptive
details to help you develop your narrative and allow the reader to visualize the scene.
(Remember that while you are creating your own narrative, your descriptions should be
consistent with the world described by Updike in The Jungle.) When you have finished, state the
theme of your narrative in one sentence.