The Jungle
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The Jungle
Thesis Statement In this novel Upton Sinclair shows the problems of working class people. His believe in and contempt for capitalism as described in this story “The Jungle”. The writer explains capitalism in which the labor communities were treated very badly and to survive in the conditions of poverty. The novel rotates around the family of a character Jurgis Rudkus who have immigrated to America from Lithuania. As well as explained about the shameless extortion of migrants in the U.S.A.
Introduction Upton Sinclair was a young and very poor novelist and political writer in America. He was also the best muckrakers of 1900s. The aim of Sinclair was to rebuild the world when he lived in Princeton Township and wrote his a great novel “The Jungle” (1906). The major concept of the novel is to emphasize the difficulties of working class people and also show the dishonesty and corruption of the industries of meatpacking in America in the period of twentieth century (Weber, 2010, 67-71).
Discussion The main themes and ideas of the novel “The Jungle” is the social and economic trouble and political leadership that ruled U.S. into the twentieth century. While he was writing this novel on struggling of Lithuanian migrants to better lives in Chicago, he describes that how ruthless and avarice competition were the main powers in the predatory capitalist American “jungle” in the beginning of ninetieth century. This thorough narrative was a sounding board for pro-socialist political system (Weber, 2010, 67-71). As the story discloses, play starts in the Chicago saloon’s back room. The people are drunk and exhausted. The aspect of restoring to the stockyard’s workers right after the ceremony leaves them demoralized. The very great character Jurgis Rudkus, rejects to succumb to the enduring of the large numbers in Packingtown, a large refugee area of Chicago. He assures to hard efforts, actually
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