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A 3 page paper which examines corruption in Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle. No additional sources cited.
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the nation. He experienced their hardships and wanted to essentially write a novel about the corruption in the nation as it involved the treatment of workers who struggled to survive.
The following paper examines this struggle in the novel. Corruption in Upton Sinclairs The Jungle In the beginning of the novel the
primary character, Jurgis, is hopeful although incredibly poor and struggling. He, and his new wife, look upon America, Chicago, as a place where life will be better than it was
in their homeland. One could well argue that the first hint that this new land, for the impoverished, is less than just comes in their wedding. They find that they
are in great debt after their wedding because they ignorantly expected guests to leave them money to help pay the costs, which was the custom in their native country. The
wedding, for these people, was a powerful and hopeful ceremony that demanded grandeur to some extent and they ended up with nothing but bills in the end.
The reason for this is hinted at while the wedding seems to be going on and Sinclair tells the reader that some of these individuals,
"There are able-bodied men here who work from early morning until late at night, in ice-cold cellars with a quarter of an inch of water on the floor--men who for
six or seven months in the year never see the sunlight from Sunday afternoon till the next Sunday morning--and who cannot earn three hundred dollars in a year" (Sinclair 18).
The fact that Sinclair speaks of such things in the midst of a wedding, a wedding that costs the couple 300 dollars, clearly illustrates the corruption involved in the society
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