The Jungle by Upton Sinclair follows Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, who is honest and extremely hardworking. ... Sinclair, however, did not succeed in promoting his thesis in The Jungle about eradicating capitalism and eliminating its social evils. ... The information and studies that Sinclair did prior to writing The Jungle was significant because of how he interpreted the corruption and hardcore labor systems of Packingtown,being that he studied the district of Packingtown for seven weeks, and even formed his own socialist community. ... Jurgis had conformed to becoming a hobo and a ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Jungle" is Upton Sinclair's call to arms against capitalism, an exploitative ideology that has laid ruin to the Chicago meatpacking district where the novel's main protagonist, Jurgis immigrates to with his family from Lithuania. ...

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He is revealed to be the "vice shah of Iran" (237), a "Lorenzo de Medici" (234) - like figure in Italy, and even worshipped as a god in "backward religions" by primitive, "ignorant and superstitious people" in the jungles of Africa (237). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate