The Jungle Thesis

The American Dream has been a great symbol for hope in the better for the immigrants presented by the author, Upton Sinclair. Upton Sinclair in the book, The Jungle, argued that the meatpacking industry in Packingtown had caused so many deaths, injuries, and corruptions which weakened the American Dream. Sinclair supported his argument by demonstrating the poor conditions of an immigrant couple, Jurgis and Ona, and their immigrant family through the use of pathos to bring out emotion of the evils of Packingtown, words to bring emphasis to the claim of the story, and symbolism to bring out the meaning of the title. Sinclair’s purpose was to argue that socialism was the best remedy for the corruptions that occurred in Packingtown in order to
I really liked the book. The book leaves a little more importance towards the horrible meatpacking industry than towards poverty suffered by the workers. I would recommend this book to everyone because of how interesting the details were and how eye opening it could be to many. I learned a lot from this book especially: being poor can ruin a family, immigrating to a new place to accomplish the American Dream can be a long rocky road, greed ruined thousands of lives and families, meatpacking industry killed and infected a lot of people, not giving up fully can lead to something good coming out of your life even when you’re left with nothing. The book relates to American History by being the cause of the FDA and hope to socialism. The outcome of the story was that nobody cared about the socialism expression, instead they focused on the atrocities of the meat factory and the exploitation of the workers. The book brought much needed attention to the atrocities. So much that Theodore Roosevelt read the novel. He was astounded at the conditions and made a quick move to fight them: Roosevelt established the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA regulated and inspected food products and helped bring an end to the exploitation of workers and unsanitary