Examples Of Socialism In The Jungle

In the jungle book I feel like the author is trying to project the evil of capitalism. I got the impression that in almost every chapter Sinclair was pointing out a particular failure of capitalism. In his view it is inhuman, destructive, unjust, brutal, and violent. I believe Sinclair wrote the book to expose the holes and to exploit the failures of the system. He also expressed that the antidote to all the complications capitalism creates is socialism towards the end of the novel.
He expresses his thesis through his characters and the trials they continuously go through throughout the novel. Sinclair shows this primarily through his character Jurgis. For example, Jurgis and his family members try to buy a house from a realtor who ends up scamming them. The realtor says that houses are going fast to try to rush the family into buying it. He does this so that they will not look into any of the conditions because the deed states that the house is a rental until it is paid for. This scam is manufactured for families like Jurgis’s because the realtor knows they can not afford this house so eventually they will miss payments and be evicted. The author uses this particular situation to show how corporate gain is so important that it is at the detriment of
It is introduced when Jurgis has exhausted all other opportunities that he can think of until he attends the socialist political meeting. His eyes are definitely opened to this possibility of socialism when a woman who is dressed nicely and is the total opposite of all the greedy, wealthy capitalists he has come in contact with. With the introduction of socialism into Jurgis’s life, this is the first time he feels as if he is not alone. In the last few chapters of the book the author illustrates Jurgis as a total conformer of socialism. He has found this whole new life founded around