... known as Packingtown or known by the immigrants as the "stockyards." They have hardly any money and no possessions when they arrived in Chicago. They are eager to buy a house and are quickly sold a "new" house when they have enough money for a down payment. Soon Jurgis and Ona find out that the "new" ... on the age in which children could work. The sausage factory was one of the worst. This is where all of the left over remains of the animals that were being slaughtered came to be processed whatever way possible. Sinclair tells how dead rats, droppings, spoiled meat, human body parts, an...

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... to picture the reality in this book. The history is developed in a form an universal idea to particular one, the two variables are: 1. The packers drive humans to live like animals. 2. The American dream The theme of the book is aptly described by its title, The Jungle. Packingtown is a jungle, where the packers drive humans to live like ... animals. The workers face essentially the same fate as the helpless animals put up for slaughter. If they are not outright killed in their jobs, they are used and exploited until the system has no further use ... race or religion. even and when in ...

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... maladies those who worked in the packinghouses suffered. From those who de-boned shanks (with their stubs of a thumb), to the workers who removed the hides from the carcasses of animals (their hands all but eaten away from the chemicals they worked in). The theme of hopelessness is prevalent. Realism might have gotten in the way of Sinclair's socialism undertone, but ... the political machine. He finds that he becomes one of the henchmen for the political powers in the packing yards. After he gets put in jail, he is forced to buy is way out, which costs him everything he has. After he i...

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... Sinclair's The Jungle, was generally critical of America's business behavior and values. The Jungle illustrates the unsafe and disgusting conditions in the meat packing plants in which the workers and animals had to live and die. However, the main purpose was to move the reader on the path to socialism, something in which Sinclair truly believed. Although The Jungle was not ... becomes involved in the political machine. He becomes one of the henchmen for the political powers in the packing yards. After he gets put in jail, he is forced to buy his way out, which costs him everything he h...

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• Has Bibliography