In result, vast amounts of immigrants migrated to America in search of this better life. ... Sinclair with intentions of writing the book solely for the purpose of promoting socialistic ideology ended up writing a novel that alarmed the public and forced our government into taking action. ... This mind set made for an attractive facade for immigrants wanting to move to here. ... Most immigrants of Chicago generally worked in one of these factories doing various jobs. ... With The Jungle's release, the novel gained a lot of its attention from the scenes of the meat packing industry'...

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• Grade Level: High School

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a highly depressing political novel about Capitalism and Socialism in America during the early 1900's. The novel follows the trials and tribulations of a Lithuanian immigrant, Jurgis Rudkus, as he tries to achieve the American Dream, is ground up and spit out by the Capitalist system, and finally learns the benefits of the Socialist dream. ... The novel opens with the wedding of Jurgis and Ona, so that the reader may learn that there are no happy days for the couple. ... The selfishness of the immigrants shows how "there must be some subtle poison in...

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• Grade Level: High School

The deplorable conditions of industrialization transform Jurgis from an ambitious immigrant in search of work into a wild animal. ... Upton Sinclair uses animal imagery in The Jungle to illustrate the dehumanization of Jurgis charting his plight from a respectable immigrant to a savage animalistic creature. ... Sinclair's words now recognize Jurgis, not as an immigrant or even as a human being, but as a "wild beast." ... Toward the end of the novel Jurgis grows bitter and angry at the realization that he has served the same purpose as the hogs. ... Jurgis realizes toward the end of ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The novel begins with the strong description of a wedding in which Ona Lukoszaite and Jurgis Rudkus are united in Holy Matrimony. ... America uses the image of the "American Dream" to lure immigrants to this land of opportunity. ... The majority of the immigrant society possess very little money. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The purpose of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was to bring the grim conditions of Chicago's meatpacking industry and its workers to the American public's attention. After Sinclair was commissioned to investigate labor conditions in the Chicago stockyards he wrote about his observations in The Jungle. ...

• Word Count: 1116
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School