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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle: Based Upon The Evils Of Capitalism

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Taking place during the early 1900’s in Packingtown, the center of a meatpacking industry in Chicago, The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair is based upon the evils of capitalism. Told from the perspective of an unknown narrator, the novel greatly focuses on the protagonist, Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who comes to America with his wife, Ona Lukoszaite and several other relatives. Sinclair’s main reason in writing this was to get information out into the public eye about the awful things that were happening in society at this point in time. Many of the things he wrote about in this book were not known to millions of people until it was published in 1906. The novel opens with the wedding of the Lithuanian immigrants, Jurgis and Ona.

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