Chapter 15

Prompt 1

      In the beginning of this chapter, we find out that Ona hasn't been coming home at a normal time, and has been very on the edge when Jurgis asks her about where she's been. After she doesn't come home yet again, Jurgis goes to the house that Ona claimed to stay at, to find she wasn't there. He then went home to find Ona there, finally.

      Jurgis questioned her about where she was and what she was doing, but at first she just wouldn't tell him (she was kind of an emotional mess at that point). But Ona finally went on to explain that Connor had raped her and threatened her. "He knew your boss- he knew Marija's. He would hound us to death, he said- then he said if I would- if I- we would all of us be sure of work- always. Then one day he caught hold of me..." Ona didn't want the members of her family to lose their jobs, so she went along with it, until Connor said he was getting tired of her.

      After Ona told Jurgis that, he ran out the door to find Connor. When he found him, he then jumped him, bludgeoning him, until men grabbed him to get him off of Connor; but right before he was pulled off, he bit a piece of his [Connor's] cheek off... Then he was taken into the custody of the police. It's so hard to believe that foreign workers were so taken advantage of, because the people who were doing it knew that they could pretty much do whatever they wanted to do to them.