Chapter 9

Prompt 1

      Business men back then (even now), could/ would be awful. They played dirty both literally and metaphorically just to make more money, took advantage of people, and didn't even care about the fact that what they were doing was downright wrong. Some of them would make meats that were "... made out of the waste ends of smoked beef that were too small to be sliced my machines; and trimmings of hams and corned beef; and potatoes, skins and all; and finally the hard cartilaginous gullets of beef..." That is just one example of a kind of meat that would be made and sold to people, practically poisoning them. Some of the meat was even treated with Pneumonia.

      And not to mention the "Bubbly Creek", which was essentially a drainage area for all of the packaging places. "The grease and chemicals that are poured into it undergo all sorts of strange transformations... Bubbles of carbonic gas will rise to the surface and burst... Here and there the grease and filth have caked solid, and the creek looks like a bed of lava..." The businessmen would then have workers fish out things from the creek, clean them, and then make them into something else and sell them. That is honestly so disgusting, and they did that just because they wanted more money; they would do anything to get that.