Jurgis was put in jail in a jail in Chicago as well.

Also Jurgis went across the

whole town to run away from Conner and ended up in a Socialism speech in just a
different part of Chicago. So most of the story took place in the city of Chicago.

The Jungle was a reorientation of the Progressive era. The story talked about the
causes and concerns during this time period in American history. It also shows the
struggle of an Immigrant from another country trying to find a better life for him
and his family. It shows all the ups and downs he went and struggles of the working
class in American. From the horrible work conditions of the factory and how bad the
bosses treated immigrants wanting to work.

The family was just trying to come to America just to have a better life than they
did in Lithuania. But found out the reality of America work in factories and plant
work. The city was also full of crime which didn’t help there wants. But at the end
it also showed the Socialism during the progressive era of how some people wanted
to change to a republican president instead of a democrat in wishing that the times
would change in America with more work and better money opportunities

The issues that went down in this book was how many immigrants were coming to
America wanting the “American Dream” which thinking that there was going to be jobs
for them and money for them to make. But all that was just a reality, it showed in
the book how bad the working conditions were in the meat-packing factory of how
dangerous and contaminated it was. Sinclair wrote this book to expose these
conditions in the meat-packing industry, which later led to new safety laws that
these establishments had to follow.

Some issues were also the money problems these immigrants had and how easy it was
to lose their jobs. In “The Jungle” it explained how the family had no work during
the winter which made it real difficult for them in making money cause that all the
work they had. They ended up losing their home and also them not having money led
to the death of Ona and the child she was carrying at the time. It also showed how
much that the American bosses would take advantage of their immigrating workers,
for example when Conner was raping Ona, and she only did it because she was “ going
to get paid more” and well she did it because of the trouble to find jobs and make
money in America was at the time.