For most of us, we take life for granted; We forget about all the everyday things like hot food, readily available running water, and a climate controlled house, all things that we take advantage of on a daily basis. All of these things, basic necessities, that immigrants struggled to keep if they ever did gain them in the first place. For the most part Upton Sinclair portrayed the life of an average citizen who started their life as an immigrant very well. Whether it be the extremely poor working conditions people were forced to deal with, the everyday struggles that they had to confront on a daily basis, or even the political corruption that the cities were once plagued with, Sinclair’s story matches up to what actually happened in history …show more content…
Upton Sinclair in his book “The Jungle”depicted the everyday struggles that immigrants like Jurgis had to go through really well and for the most part historically correct. To understand more about “The Jungle”, you need to understand more about Sinclair and his life. Sinclair had experienced some of the things he wrote about firsthand, once such thing was the widespread poverty epidemic. This experience of poverty gave Sinclair a first hand experience as to what others in the same situation were going though. Sinclair’s past is a difficult one because he had an alcoholic dad who wasn't well off, while on the other hand he had a mother who had wealth relative that he often visited (NYTIMES). All of these things attributed to Sinclair’s view of society and what was wrong with it. There was a time in the Jungle when Jurgis realise that things were not in his favor and this is something that Sinclair had specifically experience when he saw the differences between the rich and the poor. “Jurgis could see all the truth now- …show more content…
This was often the case when people got injured, except they usually didn't get their jobs back. There was such a demand for jobs in a city like Chicago that an injured person was useless to the industries and was easily replaceable with a fresh replacement. Injuries were relatively common when you are working in an industry such as meatpacking, Jurgis once twisted his ankle trying to escape from a rogue steer that bad broken free from the killing