In paragraph 2, which technique mainly does the author use to emphasize a change among sameness? They sat and stared out of the window. They were on a street which seemed to run on forever, mile after mile-thirty-four of them, if they had
known it-and each side of it one uninterrupted row of wretched little two-story frame buildings. Down every side street they could see, it was the
same--never a hill and never a hollow, but always the same endless vista of ugly and dirty little wooden buildings. Here and there would be a
bridge crossing a filthy creek, with hard-baked mud shores and dingy sheds and docks along it; here and there would be a railroad crossing, with
a tangle of switches, and locomotives puffing, and rattling freight cars filing by; here and there would be a great factory, a dingy building with
innumerable windows in it, and immense volumes of smoke pouring from the chimneys, darkening the air above and making filthy the earth
beneath. But after each of these interruptions, the desolate procession would begin again-the procession of dreary little buildings.

A. The repetition of the
phrase "here and there"

B. The descriptions of the "dirty little wooden buildings"

C. The reference to the darkening' air and the "filthy earth

D. The use of the words "mile" and "procession" more than once

C.

Explanation:

Upton Sinclair was concerned with focusing upon the exploitation of working-class people in urban America. The severe poverty in which factory workers and their families lived is given in detail. The opening of the book has Marija Berczynskas being driven by carriage to the wedding reception for her cousin Ona. Marija is having a "furious altercation" with the driver, speaking first to him in Lithuanian and then in Polish, so loudly that at every intersection on the route a crowd of street "urchins" gather, adding to the crowd already following the carriage.

In spite of his sympathetic attitude (and the basic theme of the novel) Sinclair could be accused of stereotyping, showing his characters as somewhat unruly and uncivil to each other. But the contrast established—the "change among sameness"—in the second paragraph consists in the description of the wedding reception when Marija arrives. The playing of the orchestra sounds like "fairy music," though only in comparison with Marija's continued "roaring." And the reception is sumptuous in its way, but only within the frame of reference of urban life established for the reader. An event like a wedding is a relief, a change from the ordinary drab circumstances of working-class life, and Sinclair describes it this way. But the sameness of the overall milieu shown to us from the beginning of the story is maintained. The orchestra's "fairy music" is actually a dull "broom, broom" from the cellos and a squeaking from the violins.

The fact of having the wedding feast at all is still the main point in this scene. The atmosphere of The Jungle has an analogue seventy years later in the wedding scenes of the film The Deer Hunter. In each case a marriage celebration shows both continuity and contrast with daily working-class life.

A. The repetition of the

phrase "here and there"

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d. the two authors are in awe of nature; their experiences, reveal that time in nature can change people.

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