Stanislovas Lukoszaite Character Analysis in The Jungle

Stanislovas is a teenaged son of Teta Elzbieta. He lies about his age to take a job in a slaughterhouse, but tries to avoid work when a dangerous snowstorm hits. Jurgis beats him as punishment. Later, Stanislovas falls asleep in a factory and gets eaten alive by rats. Jurgis is deeply disturbed when he hears of the boy's gruesome death.

Stanislovas Lukoszaite Quotes in The Jungle

The The Jungle quotes below are all either spoken by Stanislovas Lukoszaite or refer to Stanislovas Lukoszaite. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Dover Publications edition of The Jungle published in 2001.

Then he set someone else at a different job, and showed the lad how to place a lard can every time the remorseless machine came to him; and so was decided the place in the universe of little Stanislovas, and his destiny till the end of his days.

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Page Number and Citation: 60

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Stanislovas Lukoszaite Character Timeline in The Jungle

The timeline below shows where the character Stanislovas Lukoszaite appears in The Jungle. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

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In order to cover the cost of interest, Ona and 14-year-old Stanislovas will have to go to work. Ona secures a job sewing covers on cans by... (full context)

...in the brutal cold. One morning, a boy who works at the lard machine with Stanislovas shows up to work screaming in pain. His ears have frozen stiff and break right... (full context)

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There is a big snowstorm and Ona and Stanislovas are unable to get to work. They fear they have lost their jobs, and Jurgis... (full context)

...jail, where conditions are even worse than they were in county jail. After ten days, Stanislovas visits him to tell him that Ona is sick, the family is starving and facing... (full context)

...to work as a prostitute in order to feed Elzbieta and the children, and that Stanislovas died after falling asleep in an oil factory and being eaten alive by rats. Jurgis... (full context)