The Jungle Upton Sinclaire

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle takes place in Packingtown, an area of Chicago, around the turn of the 20th century. This book takes an intimate look at an immigrant family facing the hardships of a laborer’s life, trying to fight the hollowness of the American Dream, how capitalism essentially breaks a family apart. The main goal of The Jungle is to exploit capitalist world and try to persuade the reader that socialism is the …

…s missing is a good description of capitalism and the good things that have made it work. This book raises the important topic of what kind of government best suits the American people, and how involved the government needs to be. Upton Sinclair could have explained capitalism slightly more, but since the book was written at the beginning of the 20th century, he did not know the government would evolve, nor could he predict it.