Chapter 21

Prompt 1

      In today's society, risking your life or helping someone in need is usually seen as brave or valiant, especially if the situation is dangerous; however, in the time period that Jurgis was in, no one really thought of it that way. At least, no one who had the lifestyle he did. While Jurgis was working, he tried to help a man, but ended up hurting himself in the process. Nowadays, a lot of people would've thought that what Jurgis did was so brave and *swoon* about it.

     But the situation that most of the people were in was a 'every man for himself' thing, so they really weren't concerned about if someone else was about to burn to death and stuff like that. It's really awful that that's how those times were, but a majority of people could barely take care of themselves, nevertheless another person.