AnnaGrace Turbeville’s Reviews > The Jungle > Status Update

"She was always chasing the phantom of good health, and losing it because she was too poor to continue."

"Here was a population, low-class & mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the whim of men every bit as brutal and unscrupulous as the old-time slave driver; prevalent, as it was under the system of chattel slavery. Things that were quite speakable (occurred)...(but) did not show...because there was no difference in color between master and slave."

"At any rate, the people who worked with their hands were a class apart, and were made to feel it."

"They were willing to work all the time; and when people did their best, ought they not be able to keep alive?"