the jungle

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The Jungle is one of the most famous American novels ever written. Most people associate The Jungle with the federal legislation it provoked. Americans were horrified to learn about the terrible sanitation under which their meat products were packed. They were even more horrified to learn that the labels listing the ingredients in tinned meat products were full of lies. The revelation that rotten and diseased meat was sold without a single consideration for public …

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…beyond their control shape the inevitable course of their lives. This is the primary element to The Jungle until Jurgis joins the Socialist party. Therefore, The Jungle does make use of literary conventions in order to promote Socialism as a viable political goal. It is through the devotion to Socialism that the disenfranchised working poor can regain control of the political, economic, and social machines that currently drive them to their ruin and their deaths.