In the late eighteenth century, the industrialization of the United States led to an influx of immigrants like never before. These immigrants, predominantly from southern and eastern Europe, were promised streets paved with gold, and wages higher than they can imagine. However the immigrants were not welcomed by streets paved with gold, rather they were welcomed by streets paved with trash and the air filled with smoke and pungent odors, as presented in the book The Jungle. The Jungle is a novel written by Upton Sinclair that displayed the severe working and living conditions that immigrants were forced to deal with. Upton Sinclair portrays the economic tensions and historical processes in hand in the late 19th, early 20th century showing us factory conditions, housing conditions, and political corruption through the eyes of an immigrant family. Writing the novel through the eyes of the family allows readers to feel sympathetic towards the family, and is why this book was so effective in bringing attention to the circumstances that the lower class was put in. The Jungle is about an immigrant family from Lithuania who came to the United States being promised a better life, however as soon as …show more content…
Industrialization was a large epidemic that immigrants heard created several jobs for them, and because of that the numbers of immigrants spiked in the United States, however, immigrants were quickly disappointed when they were introduced by filthy factories and neighborhoods full of garbage. Upton Sinclair does a magnificent job, after the book was released, several investigations took place which led to stricter laws being passed in the work place, Upton Sinclair portrays the economic tensions and historical processes at hand in the late 19th and early 20th century by showing how terrible the workplace, living situation, and government was through the eyes of an immigrant