In The Jungle‚ Upton Sinclair uses a true to life story to demonstrate the working man’s life during industrialization. Marx depicts in the Communist Manifesto an explanation of why the proletariat is worked so hard for the benefit of the bourgeois‚ and how they will inevitably rise up from it and move to a life of communism. When The Jungle and the Communist Manifesto were written‚ the proletariat‚ or working class‚ was a commodity of commerce. Like their brothers‚ they subjected to competition
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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
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Jungle by Upton Sinclair‚ is fictional story that deals with a very real and shocking reality associated with turn of the century American immigrants. It is a story of a Lithuanian man‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ who comes to America in search of the “dream” with his new fiancee and her family. In their search‚ they actually find something totally different from the American dream. What they discover is a world of corruption‚ injustice‚ and poverty. The lives of immigrants
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were all addressed well in the novel. Immigration was one of the heavy themes in the novel‚ including where immigrants came from and why they came to America‚ and how they were treated once they got here. The story is about a man from Lithuania‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ who takes his family to America in hopes of attaining the American Dream. A family he knows has lost all their money to creditors in Lithuania and now have nowhere to live‚ but a member of the family‚ Jonas‚ talks about how a friend he knows
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littlest of afflictions; a prolonging cough‚ maybe even a small cut on the fingertips could steal a life. In chapter twenty-two‚ the main character Jurgis is battling with his faltering emotions after his wife dies after childbirth‚ blowing all of his hard-earned money on alcohol and sex workers in order to numb his pain. Sinclair illustrates how Jurgis’ quality character is crumbling due to drinking and his sexual desires for women he did not
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Their social power is lost when they are blacklisted from finding work in the nearby areas. Their economic power is lost when their wages are cut as the companies maximize their bottom line. In The Jungle‚ Jurgis and his family are all victims of these power deprivations. Jurgis’ pay is cut countless times. He is blacklisted from getting a job in Packingtown. Finally‚ he was involved in several swindles of political corruption aimed at deceiving ignorant immigrants to vote for candidates that
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During this time (early 1900s) America was becoming very industrialized. Industrialization to most people meant more jobs and more money. Though there were indeed more jobs available‚ the working conditions were less than favorable. The main character‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ is able to find work in one of the large slaughterhouses in Chicago. The company “Brown’s” was a part of the Beef Trust in Chicago. A trust is defined as “a combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement; especially: one
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(Fitzgerald 157 - 161). Gatsby internal perception of control fails to interpret the situation at hand rationally‚ something Jurgis Rudkus of “The Jungle” is no stranger to. In his story‚ Jurgis is sure that with hard work and determination‚ he wasn’t going to end up like the majority of the drunk‚ unfulfilled men who worked in the meat industry with him. As times get harder‚ Jurgis internal perception of control over his happiness becomes blurred as the presser becomes too much and he resorts to drinking
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young woman from upstate New York named Margaret‚ whom he described as a gutter-child‚ because government aid kept her alive. Margaret as Spencer wrote proved to be a prolific mother. In the book the jungle social darwinism is important because when Jurgis and Ona move to America and they tried to buy a house and they did not have the money to do it and they got
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Both protagonists are physically fit and use their fitness to their advantage; Jurgis Rudkus works in the meatpacking factories of Chicago‚ while James Braddock uses his fitness to further his career in boxing and to work in the docks to support his family. However‚ Cinderella Man and The Jungle also show that physical prowess alone is not sufficient to achieve success. Neither James Braddock nor Jurgis Rudkus attain success by working laboriously for large companies‚ but live in slums and
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