At the beginning of the last century, the Jogis family immigrated to the United States from Lithuania, along with his fiancée Orna's family.
The two families have the illusion that they can live a happy life like heaven in the United States. They found jobs in Chicago slaughterhouses. Who knew that the factory labor intensity is high, the sanitary conditions are poor, the body is injured, and life is becoming increasingly difficult.
Joggis and Orna are married. After marriage, in order to pay off his debts, Joggis worked hard, but was accidentally injured.
After recovering from his injuries, he went to work in the factory, but he did not expect that the position had long been replaced by others, so he had to work in the fertilizer factory that everyone feared.
His wife, Orna, was insulted by the foreman at the factory, and when Joggis learned of it, he beat the foreman badly, and Joggis was arrested and imprisoned.
When Jogis was released from prison, his wife Orna died in childbirth, followed by a son drowning. He had to wander around, working as a short-term worker in the countryside along the way.
When he returned to Chicago, he was extremely weak, unable to find a job, and had to beg along the streets.
He overheard a speech propagating socialism, associated with his own life, and was very inspired, believing that socialism was his way out.
Slaughterhouse is an early work by the American writer Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) about the suffering of the lower classes in the United States, where the protagonist's family is broken, desperate, forced to resist, and finally actively participates in the socialist movement.
