The story talks about the cruelty and the battering that lives the workers in the slaughterhouses of Chicago and the meat supplier industries abuses; The Jungle by Upton Sinclair try to picture the reality in this book. The history is developed in a form an universal idea to particular one, the two variables are:.
1. The packers drive humans to live .
like animals.
2. The American dream.
The theme of the book is aptly described by its title, The Jungle. Packingtown is a jungle, where the packers drive humans to live like animals. The workers face essentially the same fate as the helpless animals put up for slaughter. If they are not outright killed in their jobs, they are used and exploited until the system has no further use for them, at which time they are discarded. In this debased state of affairs, both exploiter and exploited lose their human qualities and become animal-like and savage.
The American dream, the novel explains that after the death of Ona's father in Lithuania his farm was sold, and the family paid two-thirds of their inheritance to a local magistrate in order to avoid losing all of it. That was when Ona's brother Jonas suggested that they all move to America. He had heard about a friend who went to America and became rich (the friend later turns out to actually be making just a modest living with his delicatessen in Chicago). In calculating the money he could earn in America, Jurgis Rudkus does not account for the fact that, while the pay rate is higher, the cost of living is greater too. But the promise of wealth is not even as important in their decision-making as the promise of social equality. The book explains their thinking: "In (America), rich or poor, a man was free, it was said; he did not have to go into the army, he did not have to pay out his money to public officials,""he might do as he pleased.
Upton Sinclair wrote this book for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, he tries to awaken the reader to the terrible living conditions of immigrants in the cities around the turn of the century.
