Chapter+27

In this chapter, Jurgis is a tramp once more, but this time, he is poorer than ever. He is crippled, and he is also wanted by the police. He cannot find a job whenever he wants it anymore. He has started begging and stealing in the streets of Chicago. When a man offers him a job, the boss immediately sends him back into the streets again because he is not strong enough. Soon, Jurgis finds out that there is a soup kitchen that offers food for the homeless and poor, so he goes there thinking that he will get as much food as he wants. However, he was barely able to get one in the morning and one in the evening. Also, he goes to a campaign meeting at one point, but accidently falls asleep and is booted out by policemen; he is grateful that he was not arrested at the time. Soon after, he miraculously meets Alena Jasaityte, who is living pretty well off (and single), and she gives him the address to Marija's house. When he goes to her home, the servant says that she does not know who he is, and he is about to leave when a bunch of policemen raid the apartment. After many attempts of escaping, the people who lived in the apartment are all arrested, including Jurgis. When Jurgis sees Marija, he calls her name, and they meet each other at last. He finds out many things from her: she was extremely sick before she became a whore to feed her family and Stanislovas died from being eaten by rats (he was locked in a place while he was drunk). While Jurgis is locked up, he begins ponderng about the things he discovered. He realizes that his past will never go away from him, as long as he lives.
 * Brief description of the plot:**

Jurgis, Marija, Alena Jasaityte
 * Characters in the Chapter:**

"He could no longer command a job...chances with the common herd." (299) "And then there was the strike...now being turned loose to shift for themselves." (300) "There is one kind of prison where...and the man is outside." (301) "The eloquent senator was explaining...part of it back with the other." (304) "They had always been decent people at home...to be pretending to decency!" (309) "It had been the task of his recent life...before he could protect himself." (313) "He heard the old voiced of his soul...manhood in his sould would flicker out." (313-314)
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