The Jungle is a novel written in 1906 by Upton Sinclair, who was an American journalist and novelist. He wrote this novel to express the terrible conditions that immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industries had to go through. Since these immigrants had no money , they would settle for any job possible, and settled for the extreme labor in factories. Specifically, it was written about the life of Jurgis Rudkus and his family, who were immigrants who came to America to work in the meatpacking plants of Chicago. They faced many enormous difficulties and hardships. In fact, Jurgis’s job at the meatpacking plant was “the shoveler of guts.” While in Chicago they lived in an unkempt slum that was very unfit to be living in. The
