Illusion of the American Dream Many immigrants migrate to America everyday with the hopes to achieve their American dream. For most immigrants the American dream consist of finding a country where effort and morality transcend to success. In “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair‚ a family of hard working optimistic Lithuanians migrate to America with the belief that equality and opportunity dictates that all people should have the same opportunities open to them if they put out efforts. They arrive to the
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The Jungle: Critical Analysis The Jungle is a novel that focuses its story on a family of immigrants who came to America looking for a better life. It was written by muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair‚ who went into Chicago and the stockyards to investigate what life was like for the people who lived and worked there. The book was originally written with the intent of showing Socialism as a better option than Capitalism for the society. However‚ the details of the story ended up launching
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Sinclair‚ Upton. The Jungle. New York: The Penguin Book‚ 1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is the story of an immigrant who came to America for a new beginning involving a “great” job. The immigrant‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ comes from a poor family in Lithuania and wants to now support his future wife‚ Ona Lukoszaite by working for a meatpacking factory in Chicago. Jurgis soon realizes that America and its’ people and opportunities are not all that he thought they would be. Sinclair exposes the horrors and
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Sinclair’s novel does accurately portray times and events that happened during this time period in the United States. To get this information Sinclair stayed in Chicago and investigated the issues for 7 weeks before writing the jungle. He was hired by a Newspaper to write the book. So the novel is accurate‚ but can be considered one sided because Sinclair’s took a stance on some issues with the harsh working conditions at meat packing factories and also the cleanliness of the factories. The novel
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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
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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The 20th century was a time of rapid industrialization. Because of this industrialization‚ Americans and Immigrants faced endless hardships. The novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair‚ is regarded as one of the most important novels of this time. It is considered an important and valuable analysis of several themes relating to turn-of-the-century life in America. The themes of immigration‚ living conditions‚ and working conditions‚ all expose why The Jungle is such a crucial
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Some people view capitalism as an evil form of government‚ and favor Socialism. One of these people being Upton Sinclair‚ author of the novel The Jungle. In the novel The Jungle‚ Upton Sinclair illustrates capitalism as evil and goes out of his way to show how awful a capitalist country can be. He writes about a Lithuanian family who comes to America in hopes of a better life‚ but their dreams are soon crushed by the reality of the countries capitalist ways. As soon as the family arrives to Packingtown
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Primary Resource Assignment In February 1906‚ the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group published the novel called The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. This novel exposed the plight of immigrants working in Chicago’s meatpacking industry. It depicted the severe working conditions of the meatpacking industries employees in Chicago and also described the unsanitary factory conditions that they had to work through during a daily basis. For example‚ some of the unacceptable conditions that were described were
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