Chapter 26 Reaction

During chapter twenty six, I felt happy to hear that Jurgis got to keep his job as a hog trimmer. I felt like this was the only job Jurgis had that was stable. I felt like the workers were taking control over their own future when they went on strike. Jurgis went to Scully to ask for another job and Scully tells him to become a scab and make as much as he can out of the strike. Before long, Jurgis argues for a wage of three dollars a day and receives it. I  felt like the packers were desperate when they began to hire anyone who was fit to do the job. I was so excited to hear that Jurgis was offered a position as a boss on the killing beds, yet, I knew that he wasn't going to be the boss for very long. I felt like Jurgis took advantage of the strike in any way he could; one way he did this was by having his boss promise him a job after the strike was over. I knew that the packers and the strikers would never reach and agreement. When they both tried to reach an agreement, the packers broke their promise to not discriminate against union leaders. I was glad that the workers returned to striking because what the packers did was unfair and wrong. I thought that it was such a coincidence that Jurgis ran into Phil Conner in Packingtown after all of their history together. I thought that Jurgis wasn't thinking at all when he attacked Conner again and got put in jail. I thought that it was nice of Harper to do all he could by reducing Jurgis's bail to three hundred dollars sozx he could pay for it. I felt like it was a good decision for Jurgis to leave town because there was nothing for him in Packingtown.