Capitalism: It's a Jungle out there The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, is a disturbing tail about the darker side of America. In this book the reader is introduced to several characters from Lithuania who have dreams of rising from the depths of poverty, using the American dream to attain a life full of freedom, finical security, hope and happiness. Instead these characters are bombarded with slavery, manipulation, depression and hard realizations about "true American …
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…and the horrors of her transformation are complete. She, truly, is a business woman and part of the machine that transforms others who come like she was. Socialism, in this book wins out over capitalism, because the evidence for it are overwhelming. The tragedy of this society can't help but force one's views into the realm of Socialism, because if one does not conform his/her thinking than that individual will lose his/her humanity.