Immigrants from all over the world have migrated to the United States of America for centuries all in search of the American Dream. The American Dream is the idea that anyone who works hard enough in the United States can become rich and famous no matter their ethnicity, race, or religion (Immigration in the Early 1900s). Upton Sinclair shows in his novel, The Jungle, how the American Dream is just a propaganda technique that the United States uses, and most people who come to the United States can not accomplish this “dream” even if they work hard for it.
For many immigrants, just like Jurgis and his family, the first thing they would see when arriving to America was the Statue of Liberty. As a matter of fact, the Statue of Liberty came to …show more content…
In order for propaganda to be effective it must stimulate others to accept without challenging the propagandist 's own assertions. Two of the most common techniques that propagandist use to influence the attitudes of their audience is Bandwagon Propaganda and Vague Propaganda. Bandwagon Propaganda involves encouraging people to act or think a specific way simply because other people are doing so. Vague Propaganda, in the other hand, involves challenging or promoting an opinion by using words that are so vague or poorly defined that they are almost meaningless …show more content…
Sinclair does this by making sure that the reader understands that Jurgis is the perfect example of a hardworking immigrant throughout the novel. Jurgis works harder and harder simply to make ends meet and most of the time it is still not enough. Sinclair purposely makes his readers like Jurgis’s character in order for this message to be effectively portrayed. The United States knows that if people succeed in America more and more people will want to succeed as well, even if it means moving across the world. By using Bandwagon Propaganda, as well as Vague Propaganda, the Unites States was, and still is to some extent, able to influence and alter the attitudes of a large group of people towards believing that they too can achieve the American
For many immigrants, just like Jurgis and his family, the first thing they would see when arriving to America was the Statue of Liberty. As a matter of fact, the Statue of Liberty came to …show more content…
In order for propaganda to be effective it must stimulate others to accept without challenging the propagandist 's own assertions. Two of the most common techniques that propagandist use to influence the attitudes of their audience is Bandwagon Propaganda and Vague Propaganda. Bandwagon Propaganda involves encouraging people to act or think a specific way simply because other people are doing so. Vague Propaganda, in the other hand, involves challenging or promoting an opinion by using words that are so vague or poorly defined that they are almost meaningless …show more content…
Sinclair does this by making sure that the reader understands that Jurgis is the perfect example of a hardworking immigrant throughout the novel. Jurgis works harder and harder simply to make ends meet and most of the time it is still not enough. Sinclair purposely makes his readers like Jurgis’s character in order for this message to be effectively portrayed. The United States knows that if people succeed in America more and more people will want to succeed as well, even if it means moving across the world. By using Bandwagon Propaganda, as well as Vague Propaganda, the Unites States was, and still is to some extent, able to influence and alter the attitudes of a large group of people towards believing that they too can achieve the American