The Jungle

In Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle not only symbolized an era where dirt and filth ran rampant in meat packing industry, but it also exposed people to the natural human desire of greed, power, and corruptions. This in turn was a socialist transformation itself. Sinclair also provides the meaning to the phrase “wage slavery” in different ways. In the novel Sinclair tells a story about a man name Jurgis, a Lithuanian immigrant who gets …showed first 75 words of 596 total…

…showed last 75 words of 596 total…social values by emphasizing the fact that they are a Lithuanian “alien”. Sinclair portrays the practice of selling diseased and rotten meat in order to position big businessmen as corrupt liars. In conclusion The Jungle not only revealed the way workers were treated but it also described how socialism spread. “Sinclair discovered the way to Americans heart which was through their stomachs. Bibliography Bibliography Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York, NY: Dell Publishing, Bantam Books, 1981.