The Jungle Theme

The Jungle was written by Upton Sinclair. The book is based around a family of immigrants from lithuania. He follows them through their harsh journey, and all of the terrible things life throws at them. One of the things Upton sinclair hits on throughout the book is all the corruption in america at the time. He shows throughout the whole book how bad america has become and how terrible the people where at the time.
In the book The Jungle the main characters, jurgis and ona, are put through many hard times from the start. The classes were separated during immigration. The wealthy most of the time never had to go through inspection; people just assumed that they were free of disease and fit to be a citizen. The working class had to go through many tests and inspections and some were not able to make it through and would probably never be able to see their families again. Other early problems of the corrupt america that Ona and Jurgis ran into was durning renting a home for them and all of the other family members that have came along with them. They were taken advantage of when their real estate agent showed them a house and lied to them, they could only pay for what was offered to them. They had to pay interest on the house, this put them in debt and everyone had to pitch in to just survive.
He turned to drinking and after the death of his beloved wife Ona he wasted all of the very little money he had on drinks. He was already on the streets and had no job so he had to move to try and look for better work. The early nineteen hundreds was a rough time for america, many call it the gilded age because it looks so beautiful and safe but when you get here it's corrupt and riddled with filthy people. With the rise of socialism and the increase of immigrants people started to to take advantage of people and turn their golden streets into brothels and