Jurgis listening to Freddie Jones complain about his parents and being left alone when Jurgis is literally homeless, broke, and freezing. #ignorance#chavezlit@chavezlit
Teta Elzbieta is working in the sausage room packing spoiled meat into sausages....but didn’t her son die after he ate a sausage?!! #dramaticirony#chavezlit@chavezlit
Sinclair relates the factory system to slavery, people care less about this labor problem because there is no clear racial difference between the employer and the laborers. The factory system is like slavery except you are getting paid. #hyperbole#pathos#chavezlit@chavezlit
Me when I read that the men in the steam room would sometimes fall into the vats and be melted into lard and sold for people to use. #chavezlit@chavezlit#disgusting#pathos
When Upton Sinclair hears from his grave that teenagers are posting memes about his novel that was supposed to convince his readers that capitalism is flawed. #literaturememes@chavezlit#chavezlit