Jeffrey Northcutt
Mrs. Barbara Loomis
AP United States History
19 October, 2015
The Jungle In The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair in 1906, Jurgis Rudkis and his wife, Ona Lukozaite, immigrate to a small town in Chicago named Packingtown in hopes of successfully pursuing the American Dream. It soon becomes relevant that one of the major themes in the story is the qualities of evil in capitalism, an economic or political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, and one of Sinclair’s purposes for writing The Jungle was to persuade the audience to choose socialism over capitalism. Socialism is a political and economical theory of social organization that suggests that the ways of production,
Mrs. Barbara Loomis
AP United States History
19 October, 2015
The Jungle In The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair in 1906, Jurgis Rudkis and his wife, Ona Lukozaite, immigrate to a small town in Chicago named Packingtown in hopes of successfully pursuing the American Dream. It soon becomes relevant that one of the major themes in the story is the qualities of evil in capitalism, an economic or political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, and one of Sinclair’s purposes for writing The Jungle was to persuade the audience to choose socialism over capitalism. Socialism is a political and economical theory of social organization that suggests that the ways of production,