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Essay on The Jungle - Immigration Experience
Immigration has taken many different shapes and forms during American history. In the United States of the late eighteenth century, most immigrants came from a few countries of northern and western Europe. As the country expanded westward and new lands opened for settlement, immigrants from many other areas of the world came to escape hardships in their homelands and to seek their fortunes in America. Despite the many different groups arriving over hundreds of years, the immigrant experience has been in many ways the same. Immigrants have had to strike a balance between the challenges of assimilation and the need to retain their identities. Somehow they have always managed to do just that.
Throughout Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the author demonstrates the greed of Capitalism and how it gives politicians and businessmen the ability to exploit the immigrants’ population. Sinclair's main purpose in naming the book, The Jungle, is to put the reader's focus on the heartless politics of Capitalism. If he had named the book Stockyards or Packing town, a person's concentration may be solely on these places. It is evident that Capitalism does not equally distribute the industries ruling, but rather allows certain groups to dominate the workers. The businessmen and politicians took advantages of this right and did not allow the immigrants to respond.
They treated them very poorly, often working them so hard that they died or suffered from life long injuries. Since the story's main setting is in Packing town, the reader is familiarized with this town and is engrossed with its surroundings. With the title The Jungle, the reader will want to closely examine why Sinclair chose this title instead. With another name, the reader might have been inclined to get distracted by the gruesome details and not have realized the Socialist concept that he was trying to convey. This title was necessary to enthrall the reader's mind to think about his purpose.......
