# Kristoforas — The Jungle character guide

> Kristoforas in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** little Kristoforas

**First appearance:** 0002-i

## Who they are

Elzbieta's disabled young son who dies tragically.

## In the story

### [Chapter XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jungle_se/chapters/xiii)

The crippled child of Elzbieta dies suddenly after eating smoked sausage, possibly made from tubercular pork. He had congenital dislocation of the hip and rickets, and was only three years old.

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