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The Role Of Socialism In Sinclair's The Jungle

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Sinclair’s book The Jungle shows the hard situations that people in the time period unfortunately had. With many families coming into America, people were coming from all over to work in these jobs. The story follows Jergis, an immigrant who gets married and gets a new job at the meat packaging plant in Packingtown. His entire family moves out of a very small apartment and into a bigger and nicer house. Once they miss a payment however, they get evicted from this house and have to return to living in very harsh conditions. The entire family struggles to find good work and even the children have to get jobs to help support the family. The family struggles with illnesses from the harsh conditions and the very extreme cold in Chicago at the time. After devastation hits and Jergis loses his family, and he struggles after getting out of jail. He has a very hard time with losing his wife and eventually, both of his kids. He becomes a drunk and has more trouble with his work and even has to beg on the streat for his money just to barely get by. …show more content…

Sinclair tried to make this book promote socialism and discermish the capitalism system. He had hoped that this book will not only convince a few of the wealthy readers, but also convince the common people to push for more socialism. He had also written this book with an attempt to connect so much with women. This book was meant to connect more with women because he felt that they would be a bigger audience. He also made Jurgis's wife have a very difficult with her work conditions, including her boss who had taken advantage of her and and her

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