The Various Sources of Evils in Upton Sinclair’s The...

The title, â€Å"The Jungle† (Upton Sinclair. The Jungle. New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005), when dissected after having read it, denotes Upton Sinclair’s view of the time period, where Capitalism was the corrupted script for people’s lives rather than Socialism. Throughout the course of the book Upton Sinclair explores, in depth, the evils levied upon stockyard workers, as a result of Capitalism, to include family and immigration, while narrowly serving his own agenda of pushing the concept of Socialism. Sinclair entered the world, in the state of Maryland, in 1878. Though he was technically born into the Southern aristocracy, the timing was such that his family was now feeling the ill effects of poverty due to the depressed state of the economy at the time. Upon his venture into college Sinclair began writing as a means to pay for not only the necessities of life, but also, as a way to finance his education. As a result of his research and writings, Upton became an avid supporter of the philosophy of Socialism. He found it necessary to immerse himself in the lives of the stockyard workers, of the era, to report fully the truths about industrialization. Due to the nature of his job as a journalist of the time, Sinclair was absolutely one of the best candidates, or experts on this particular subject matter. Upton’s approach to writing was that of a Muckraker, or journalistic approach, which clearly exposes the wrongs of industrialization. Sinclair’s book, The