Theme Analysis of the immigrant Experience In The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, the characters’ immigrant experience and disillusionment of their American dreams lead to hardship and persecution, which made their livelihood troubling. Immigrant’s ability to save money and keep their jobs were very difficult, which made their livelihood filled with persecutions. Immigrant work was also challenging and harmful, that it lead to physical hardship According to Upton Sinclair, in Chapter 1 it states, “If one of them a be a minute late, he will be docked an hours pay… if he be many minutes late , he will be apt to find his brass check turned to the wall.” (20) Another quote, in Chapter 2 it says, “What had made the discovery all the more painful was
