... losing his wife and family to rape and death. Every chapter in the book is chalk full of horrible events that little room is left for actual consideration of the characters. As such, the reader learns from Jurgis the ways in which capitalism stifles the working class. Upton Sinclair strategically subjects Jurgis to the atrocities he suffers in the novel to ... opens up into Jurgis's exposure to socialism. Having endured the atrocities entailed by the plot, socialism stands in stark contrast with the realities of capitalism. In his newfound relationships with characters like comrade Hind...

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... ) in factories such as the meat packing industry. The author, was successful at portraying the idea of capitalism, he not only showed the hazard of factory work on the main characters but on all the different characters with different situations appearing in the novel. ...

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... Jurgis' life because of its extremity. The Jungle would have a much greater influence if it were more realistic. I believe The Jungle would have a greater influence if Sinclair created more developed characters. Sinclair wrote the book so that the conditions of the workers lives grew larger than the lives or the workers, however, it would have been more effective to write the ... ...

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