Where there is light, there is dark. In the eatly 20th century, American industrialization developed rapidly. It made a prosperous society of America, but it also made the dark. Social evils hiding behind the peosperity were reflected by the the lowest level workers lives. “The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.” was written by Upton Sinclair in his book, The Jungle. In his book, he tells about a story of Jurgis Rudkus, who comes to America with full of hopes and dreams with his family from Lithuania and finds a job in Brown's slaughterhouse in Chicago. But life isn’t match with his American dream. Catastrophes ensuse to him. His loses his job because of work injury. His wife, Ona, is raped by her boss. Jurgis is under arrest because of beating the boss. Ona dies in dystocia and his son drowns. Everythings keeps eroding his …show more content…
Sinclair uses slaughterhouse to repersent the socirty to the underclass and the hogs in the slaughterhouse to repersent the underclass workers. For example, in chapter 3, he describes the hogs that “they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests.” This quotation shows that in hogs is hopeful to where they are going to go, but they don’t know that thay are going to face is excruciation and death. Jurgis uses the hogs to represent the immigrants who come to America with their beautiful American dream, thinking about the wonderful life in America, such as Jurgis. However, what they don’t know where they are going to a society that never give them the life in their dream but only oppression, hopeless, inhuman and injustice, the “slaughterhouse.” By indecating the difficulty and helpless of those underclass people to the readers throught using symbolism, Sinclair makes the central idea much more