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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is the story of a Lithuanian family that immigrates from their home city in Lithuania to the city of Chicago. The novel begins with the strong description of a wedding in which Ona Lukoszaite and Jurgis Rudkus are united in Holy Matrimony. The two of them then move to Chicago. Soon after the wedding, Ona and Jurgis have many great debts to pay due to both the wedding and a …

…A Socialistic style government would average the monopoly of power between the two classes. I don’t think that Upton Sinclair wrote this book to really set off the meat market (though that what some of the main focus of the book was on), but rather to emphasize the poor circumstances of the lower class. But without Upton Sinclair’s ideas, the meat market could have remained in the state that it held back then.