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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Sinclair, Upton

Sinclair, Upton
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Jungle. Chapters 17 - 25

Chapter 17

Plot Development

Structure. Sinclair structures Chapter 17 in a sequence of
jail-court-jail (like Chapter 16), but this time all three sections contain
fully dramatized action on the scene-summary-scene-summary pattern (like
Chapter 15).

Jail. Jurgis' new cellmate is a young safecracker who declared war on society
after a "great company" had stolen his invention.

Trial. Judge Callahan accepts Connor's verision of the fight - Jurgis had
attacked him because he had fired Ona - and sentences Jurgis to thirty days'
hard ...

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