Sinclair corrupts the "American Dream" that the immigrants have imagined since migrating here to America. The immigrants grew excitement knowing they were going to receive jobs, live on land of acceptance, and begin living the "American Dream". ... Sinclair does a very well job of portraying an accurate picture of the meat packing industry causing the image of the "American Dream" to get twisted around in the immigrants head. ... His life slowed down here within the next two years, which was until 1904 when Fred Warren, the editor of social journal Appeal to Reason, assigned him to write a nov...

• Word Count: 1827
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The real story revolves around the integration and eventual disintegration of Jurgis Rudkis and his family, Lithuanian immigrants who move to the Chicago stockyards in hopes of a better life. Unfortunately, their hopes quickly disintegrate; like thousands of other unskilled immigrants at the turn of the century, financial necessity forces them into virtual slave labor in order to survive. ... "The Jungle" shows the relationship between the animals that were being slaughtered and the workers who were slaughtering them, from very early in the novel. ... Immigrants with peasant backgrounds, and e...

• Word Count: 1382
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

During the turn of the twentieth century, it was quite common for immigrants to come overseas to America in hope for a better life. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair follows Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, who is honest and extremely hardworking. ... The diction used to describe the labor conditions that these citizens and immigrant workers had to work in were bold, and did not seem true because of how exaggerated the disgust was. ... In the novel's concluding chapters, Upton Sinclair begins to establish his perspective of socialism and how it could bring down the corrupt system and to ...

• Word Count: 1823
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Later in the novel, Jurgis becomes involved in the political machine. ... During the course of the novel, Sinclair uses many themes. ... So during the course of the novel, Sinclair uses these themes to illustrate his point. ... Also, Sinclair took a kind of nonfictional approach to writing the novel. ... The businessmen and politicians took advantages of this right and did not allow the immigrants to respond. ...

• Word Count: 2054
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography