Sinclair had actually intended the novel to sympathize the working class and to build support for the Socialist movement, which he was an avid member of. ... Jurgis Rudkis and Ona, his soon to be wife, come to Chicago with their family to start a better life in America. ... To keep up with all the payments, every family member has to get a job. ... After months of working, the family is struggling to survive through the horrible working conditions. ... After being put in jail and losing Ona and Antanas, Jurgis flees the countryside and leaves the family behind. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jurgis and his family took a tour of Packingtown. ... But, misfortune falls upon the family again. ... The rest of the family is stricken with numerous illnesses. ... He receives a job in the stockyards for his support of a Republican candidate, Scully. ... The political corruptions that supported American capitalism are as corrupt as the businesses. ...

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While he was growing up, his family was very poor because of his father's failing career in sales, resulting in his inability to support his family. ... Once his family moved to New York, Upton was able to attend school. ... But no matter what the trial, Jurgis focuses on supporting his family, especially his newborn son Antanas, and believes they can be successful by honest hard work. ... The working men don't care about cleanliness or health, all they care about is making enough money to support themselves and their family. ... So the family is still functioning, but barely. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In this way, family is unwanted because they cost more. ... Everyone in the family had to work. They had to help support the family. The families lived in wretched, polluted homes. ... The family was never united. ...

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It does provide many historical events in vivid descriptions which supported the contrasts between capitalist views and socialist reforms. ... Jurgis joins Ona, Ona's family, and his family to journey to America. ... He starts planning for his family's future. ... His family was poor. ... Maybe not every family had all of the hardships that this one family had, but these kinds of disasters were going on all across America. ...

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He left Lithuania in hope of starting a family and a cordial Life. ... They live in Packington their first day the get jobs quite easily still supporting the idea that things are going well. ... Jurgis and his family expierienced this world of unjustice drastically. ... During his time recovering he sees that everything is coming apart and him and his family might not make it. ... Stanislovas visits him in jail to get money and tell him of the news of the family all is bad. ...

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He was born into a rich family. ... When he did that the upper class started to withdraw their support from Marx and his newspaper. ... Even though he was born into a rich family he lived and died a pauper. His family hardley had enough food to survive and two of his children died "a scarifice to bourgeois misery." ...

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Marx also considers labor as a forced means of production for substinence of the worker and his family. ... The person physically and mentally drains himself from achieving any dreams in order to maintain a life for his family. ... Marx's circular reasoning does not allow for great criticism because each critique slowly evolves to support his point. ...

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Karl Marx saw many problems with the capitalist system. He tried to identify and remedy the problems of capitalism through his creation of Marxism. He felt that capitalism benefited the owners of the means of production, not the worker. Karl Marx describes capitalists as people w...

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They also like having their own family contrary to whatever Marx says about have one big universal family because the only point of a family is for reproduction. ... He was a member of the Bourgeoisie in Germany (mainly because his good friends Engles supported him) who barely worked a day in his life except a job as a journalist for very little of his life. ...

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For centuries people have come across the U.S. borders from foreign countries hoping for a better life, a life that is free from unruly dictators and poverty for them and their families. ... While Smith and Marx supported completely different approaches to achieve these ends, neither of their suggested systems proved to be totally infallible.Adam Smith believed that people are by nature selfish. ... Minority group of people worked very hard to make their way up to the top, while the majority upper class simply take over their family's inheritance. ...

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His future wife actually fell asleep on his shoulders during the gathering and that is when he fell in love her because she admired and supported the same ideals as him which were the communist ideals of Lenin. ... Despite the fact the he is relocated, the narrator is still pulled constantly back to his family and his origins. ...

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• Grade Level: High School