t matters to Jurgis. Jurgis, after a brief conversation with the speaker, learns that he is a Socialist and he is directed to Ostrinski, a Lithuanian Socialist. Ostrinski and Jurgis talk all night about Socialism and home in Lithuania. Jurgis soon gets a job as a porter in a hotel and begins to live with his old family again. He finds out that the owner of the hotel is a Socialist who frequently begins debates with guests about Socialism with which Jurgis is pleased to learn. Jurgis tries to get Marija out of the brothel but she refuses because she addicted to morphine and knows she can never leave. Later Jurgis attends a meeting with a magazine editor in which he learns more about Socialism. The Socialists want to bring the larger lower class out of poverty and give everyone a better life. By eliminating inefficiency in the work place through technology, people will have to work less and be able to live better. The Socialist party goes on to do very well in the election and the book ends with the chant of, “Chicago will be ours!”I think The Jungle really sheds a lot of light on the life of the workingman during the American Industrialization Era. It was very hard just to simply survive in big cities during the turn of the century because of the control the industries had and the lack of unions and government involvement. Life as a rich person in control was great, but the only way to attain that position was to cheat and lie and steal your way up to the top. The reason the characters in The Jungle could not make it was because they were honest, hard working people. To succeed in “the jungle” one had to be dishonest and cheat and steal. Sinclair is trying to say that a Capitalist society is run by dishonesty and crime and that if someone tries to live an honest life, they will die. By saying that only in a Capitalist society could all these things happen, he is showing the reader that the superior ...
